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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of HSEQ strategies, policies, and procedures aligned with ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and ISO 9001 standards.

• Conduct and review risk assessments and method statements (RAMS), ensuring effective controls are implemented and communicated.

• Investigate incidents, near misses, and non-conformances, providing thorough root cause analysis and corrective actions.

• Monitor and report on HSEQ performance metrics, identifying trends and driving continual improvement.

• Coordinate and deliver training, inductions, and toolbox talks to promote awareness and competency across the workforce.

• Oversee contractor management processes, emergency preparedness, and statutory inspections (e.g. LOLER, PUWER, LEV, Legionella, Fire Safety, DSEAR).

• Support environmental and sustainability initiatives, including waste management, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction targets.

• Maintain and improve the quality management system, coordinating internal audits and management reviews.

• Represent the business during external audits, client meetings, and regulatory inspections.

• Promote a proactive HSEQ culture through visible leadership, engagement, and collaboration across teams.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Proven experience in an HSEQ leadership role within an operational, engineering, or technical environment.

• Strong working knowledge of ISO management systems (45001, 14001, and 9001) and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Skilled in conducting audits, inspections, and investigations with a focus on root cause analysis and continuous improvement.

• Confident communicator able to influence at all levels and build positive relationships across departments.

• Experience developing and delivering effective HSEQ training and awareness programmes.

• Strong organisational and analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive performance.

• Demonstrated commitment to embedding safety, quality, and sustainability in day-to-day operations.

• Leadership capability to coach, mentor, and support colleagues within the HSEQ function and wider business.

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 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.