Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, 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

As an LCA Consultant, you will support the delivery of LCA and sustainability projects across a range of sectors. You will apply developing expertise in LCA methods and tools to analyse environmental impacts, contribute to sustainability reporting and support clients in designing lower-impact, circular and resource-efficient products and systems.

Key Responsibilities

Project delivery and management

• Deliver assigned LCA tasks under the guidance of senior colleagues in line with ISO 14040/14044 standards and Ricardo’s quality frameworks.
• Support the delivery of LCA projects across a range of sectors and applications, ensuring work is completed to high technical and quality standards.
• Plan and manage own workload across multiple projects, providing progress updates and identifying risks to delivery.
• Contribute to project documentation, data management and quality assurance processes.
• Maintain accurate project records and track time using internal systems.
• Maintain approximately 85% utilisation on project delivery.

Technical delivery and leadership

• Apply working knowledge of LCA principles and tools (e.g. SimaPro, GaBi, OpenLCA, Excel) to carry out data analysis and modelling.
• Support data collection, validation, and interpretation in accordance with ISO 14040/44 standards.
• Contribute to the development and application of LCA methodologies, databases and analytical frameworks.
• Prepare clear, well-structured technical deliverables such as data summaries, report sections and presentation materials.
• Support research and evidence-gathering to inform client recommendations and internal capability building.

Client relationships and thought leadership

• Communicate effectively with clients and project partners at an appropriate level, under guidance from senior colleagues.
• Contribute to client meetings, workshops and presentations as required.
• Support the preparation of client-ready deliverables and help ensure outputs are aligned with client expectations.

Commercial awareness

• Contribute to proposals and bids under the supervision of senior team members.
• Support delivery efficiency through good organisation, quality and communication.
• Help identify opportunities to improve project delivery, client experience or internal tools and systems.

Professional development

• Take ownership of personal development, building expertise in LCA tools, standards and applications.
• Seek feedback and apply learning to improve technical quality and delivery skills.
• Participate in internal knowledge-sharing and team learning sessions

Key Competencies and Experience

• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant technical or environmental discipline.
• Practical experience in conducting LCAs, ideally within a consultancy, research or industry setting.
• Working knowledge of LCA standards and methodologies (ISO 14040/44, EN 15804, PAS 2050).
• Familiarity with one or more LCA software tools such as SimaPro, GaBi or OpenLCA.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with good attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Excel for data management and analysis.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly, both in writing and verbally.
• Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively as part of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Awareness of sustainability and circular economy principles and their relevance to LCA.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Understanding of environmental product declarations (EPDs) and product footprinting standards.
• Awareness of current and emerging sustainability and regulatory frameworks (e.g. EU Green Deal, CSRD).
• Experience with automation, data handling or scripting languages (e.g. Python, R, Excel VBA).
• Interest in data visualisation and communication of complex results (e.g. Power BI, Tableau).

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.