Role: Consultant – Water (Environmental)

Location: Bristol - Hybrid

Salary range: £30,000 - £36,000

Role ID: 2025-3064

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are looking for a Consultant to join our Water team based in our Bristol office. Ideally, with 1-2 years’ experience in an aquatic environmental consultancy role, you will have a good understanding of the UK water industry and its regulation, and experience in one or more water related technical disciplines, such as water resources, water management and water quality. In this role you will work alongside our project managers and technical experts to provide high quality support for the delivery of projects in our water, ecology and environmental impact assessment teams. There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our business with the aim of helping to develop a portfolio of projects where our water related expertise can complement other environmental assessments.

Key responsibilities

• Support the co-ordination of pollution incident response and environmental impact assessment projects.
• Data collation, processing, analysis, interpretation and visualisation using Excel and GIS.
• Desk studies, literature reviews, option appraisals, impact assessment and reporting.
• Support the technical lead on complex projects and proposals.
• Project co-ordination and management.

Key competencies and experience

• Bachelors (2.1 or above) and ideally a post graduate degree in a relevant subject.
• Understanding of the UK water industry and its regulation.
• Thorough experience of using Excel and GIS packages (such as ArcGIS and QGIS).
• Experience of reviewing and interpreting water quality datasets, with excellent analytical skills.
• Effective report writing skills.
• Ability to fault find and problem solve in challenging environments.
• Effective time management skills.
• Willingness to learn from contributing to a broad range of fieldwork and office-based tasks.
• A full UK driver’s licence.

Skills and behaviours 

Essential

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Good collaborative team working and strong communication skills.
• Excellent report writing and a close attention to detail.
• The ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• Effective stakeholder liaison skills, including keeping others up to date with progress.
• Ability to manage and work to tight project deadlines and under pressure.
• Ability to support technical input into proposals.
• Ambitious, enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment.
• Self-organized. 

Desirable

• Some knowledge, experience or interest in one or all of the following: water quality (freshwater and/or marine), water quality and aquatic ecology sampling, water chemistry and water demand management and efficiency.
• Fieldwork experience.
• Water safety training (to be provided).
• Client facing experience.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.