Role: Independent Assurance Team Lead

Vacancy Status: Full Time

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

Lead and develop a high-performing team to meet current and future customer needs, working collaboratively across business units and with the Business Development community to drive strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

People:

• Manage Team: Set objectives, monitor and review progress and behaviours, provide feedback and support via 1:1s and PDR.
• Develop Team: Work with Operations Manager (OM) and HR colleagues to define and deliver development opportunities tailored to team requirements (including training, mentoring, coaching etc.)
• Competencies: Ensure team competencies are up to date.
• Manage Resources: Work with Project Manager (PM) to proactively manage team utilisation to balance effort across team and optimise deployment of people across portfolio of projects both within the team, wider UK business and on overseas opportunities, manage resourcing conflicts proactively.
• Leave Management: Notifying the PM to allow for project planning.
• Secure Resources: Work with OM to consider longer term alignment of resources and effort required, recruiting additional team members in-line with delivery of business plan.

Clients/projects:

• Lead Relationships: Lead positive relationships with key prospects, clients and collaborators.
• Ensure Quality: Foster a culture of delivering high-quality outputs, reviewing proposals prior to submission

Financial performance:

• Lead Relationships: Lead positive relationships with key prospects, clients and collaborators.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Ability to manage people and projects effectively with high degree of communication and commercial skills.
• Ability to interact and maintain strong client and other stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to mentor.
• Demonstrates ability to manage complex and rapidly changing priorities.

To apply, applicants should send their CV directly to Sarah.Thrussell@ricardo.com  or Cherrelle.Johns@ricardo.com

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for formal interviews.

This opportunity is open to all Ricardo Rail North America employees. Applications close by COB April 25, 2026.

Note: We do not require Canadian work experience for this role.

Additional Information

AI Disclosure: We don’t use AI tools to assist in [resume screening / candidate matching / other selection processes].

Candidates interviewed will receive feedback within 45 days of their interview.

Records related to this posting and candidate communications will be retained for three years in compliance with Ontario regulations.

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.

EEOC

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, LGBT+, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record, 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.