Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. 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.

The Role

This role is for a Battery CFD Engineer in the Mechanical Capability Group. You’ll work on battery development projects, using Star-CCM+ to assess thermal management and model scenarios like thermal runaway.

It’s a hands-on role where you’ll help clients understand how different designs and technologies interact, deliver solutions on time and within budget, and see your work directly shape real-world products.

Key Responsibilities

• To work on engineering activities for cooling, thermal modelling of battery systems
• Responsible for working closely with a design and development team to assess functionality and performance of the developed systems; discuss and agree on requirements and targets
• Modelling and analysis of fluid systems using 3D fluid dynamics and thermal analysis tools
• Technical reporting; interpretation of results and suggestions for improvements
• Work to internal and client quality procedures and validation processes.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Minimum degree in an Engineering or Science related discipline (e.g. electrical and electronic engineering / mechanical engineering / physics / computer science / software engineering / maths / control engineering)
• A sound knowledge of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics theory
• Strong experience with 3D CFD Star CCM+ for battery modelling including thermal runaway
• Able to work independently, setting task priorities to deliver the required project deliverables on time
• Must be able to communicate and make presentations with a high degree of clarity, having the ability to write and deliver technical presentations to both internal project teams and clients, at gateway and management reviews
• Proactive, self-motivated, and attention to detail

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 employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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.