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

This role helps turn strategic ideas into action by coordinating projects, supporting internal and client workstreams, and scaling reusable tools, templates, and processes. You’ll ensure the growing strategic function runs smoothly and consistently, supporting the Director and team to lay the foundation for scalable growth and long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Services & Client Support

• Support clients’ product strategy through should-cost analysis, relative cost analysis, product benchmarking, technology roadmapping, and market entry/positioning strategy.

• Assist in developing high-value technology and product-focused strategic services.

Project & Engagement Support

• Coordinate delivery of internal and client-facing strategic projects.

• Track project milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.

• Assist with research, content creation, proposal inputs, and meeting follow-ups.

Operational Enablement

• Maintain project documentation, team trackers, templates, and toolkits for consistent delivery.

• Support internal team routines such as standups, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing.

• Prepare updates, dashboards, and progress reports for leadership.

Resource & Methodology Support

• Track team availability and project assignments; help allocate resources effectively.

• Identify delivery or capacity risks and coordinate with the Director.

• Manage internal assets like frameworks for benchmarking, cost modeling, and strategy.

• Support the development of repeatable methods and best-practice documentation.

Talent & Client Coordination (Secondary)

• • Assist in proposals and client engagement to open new markets and opportunities.

  • Guide clients through complex decision-making in areas such as electrification, hydrogen, and regulatory change.

Key Competencies and Experience

• 4–6 years’ experience in consulting, engineering project coordination, or operational roles.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.

• Familiarity with automotive, industrial, or energy sectors is a plus.

• Comfortable working in both structured and ambiguous settings.

• Strong ownership, accountability, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Professional, credible, and confident in your expertise.

• Strategic thinker with a vision for opportunities and the ability to drive improvements and close deals efficiently.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to simplify complex issues for internal and external audiences.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and listening skills.

• Able to handle confidential information with discretion.

• Thrives in a fast-paced, matrixed organization.

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. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

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.