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

In this position you will project, evaluate and interpret policy and market trends for energy commodities across the entire energy market/system, including the end-use and supply sectors (Industry, Buildings, Transport, Power, e-Fuels and Bioenergy/Biofuels Supply). The role supports strategic decision-making by analysing supply–demand dynamics, pricing behavior, and broader market drivers. It combines data analytics, economic modelling, and operations research.

More specifically, you will:

• Collect, process and analyse multi- and single-country energy system and economic data covering all demand and supply sectors.
• Track policy developments impacting energy pricing and long‑term energy system planning.
• Operate, maintain and update the in-house energy system modelling tools (e.g. PRIMES) for full impact assessments, evaluating energy market scenarios and sensitivity analyses.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable narratives.
• Support internal and client-facing deliverables on energy market developments.
• Work closely with modellers and analysts and contribute to the preparation of forward-looking energy policy scenarios. 
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and presentations summarizing trends, forecasts, and model-based insights.

Key Competencies and Cxperience

• Hold an MSc degree in engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, energy economics or physics.
• Proven work and/or research experience in the field of energy systems analysis, energy market analysis, techno-economic assessment or engineering from at least two (2) to six (6) years.
• Prior experience working with or analysing specific end‑use sectors – such as transport, buildings, industry or power – is an asset.
• Demonstrated data management skills, including the ability to work with large datasets and use programming tools, preferably GAMS or Python or R for modelling.
• Experience in mathematical programming, optimization modelling, general software programming or familiarity with common modelling platforms (TIMES/MARKAL, OSeMOSYS, MESSAGEix, PLEXOS, PyPSA, etc.) is an asset.
• Have a good understanding of European and/or international energy and environmental policy issues and of fundamentals of economic theory.
• Project management experience will be considered a plus.
• Proven writing skills gained through (co-) authorship of academic articles, technical and/or policy reports in English is an asset.
• Be an excellent user of MS Office, with emphasis on MS Excel (including VBA).
• Be proficient in English (verbal and written).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.
• Have a detail-oriented and problem-solving mindset, collaborative attitude, ready to develop new competencies in energy economics and system modelling and ability to work multiple projects simultaneously.

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.