Analyst Consultant (Water Quality/Hydrometry)

Ricardo Energy & Environment

London, UK 🇬🇧

Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

Harwell, UK 🇬🇧

Role:Analyst Consultant – Water Quality/Hydrometry

Location: Bristol / Harwell / London

Salary range: £20,000 – £30,000 plus benefits

Role ID: 1669

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. 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.

Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc’s five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data. With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.

We are currently looking for an Analyst Consultant to join our Water Resources team. Much of our work is for water companies, but also covers wider infrastructure projects for developers and airports, where hydrometry and water quality data is essential to assess risk and support mitigations work. The successful candidate will work across our water, ecology and environmental impact assessment teams. There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our business with the aim of helping to develop a portfolio of projects where hydrometric expertise can complement other environmental assessments.

Key responsibilities

  • You will input into a range of environmental assessments where hydrometric data can help with the understanding of baseline characteristic and change to support management options.
  • You will need to be able to work effectively with water companies, developers, design engineers, contractors, planner and other regulators to help achieve positive outcomes of our projects.
  • Data management, quality assurance, analysis and interpretation of hydrology and water quality datasets.
  • Specialist in-house training will be provided to the successful candidate in the areas of:
    • Data collation through water quality sampling, flow meters and using Unmanned Aquatic Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (no prior experience required).
    • Support the installation and maintenance of water quality and water level sensors.

Key competencies and experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree (at least second class degree in Environmental Science or Geography).
  • Appetite for working in the outdoors as part of a team and individually.
  • Effective report writing and numerical skills.
  • Ability to interpret data trends, spot erroneous data and sensor drift.
  • A full UK driver’s license (ideally with good driving experience).

Skills and behaviours 

  • Excellent team working.
  • Strong communication skills and a close attention to detail.
  • Enthusiastic, keen to learn and able to act quickly and flexibly across projects.
  • Ambitious, enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment.
  • Good IT skills with commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office, internet, email and GIS.
  • Self-organized. 

Desirable

  • Experience of reviewing and interpreting water quality and hydrometric data.
  • GIS skills.
  • Practical skills (such as handheld power tools).
  • Flow gauging and water quality data collection experience. 

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

Wellbeing and work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that’s 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. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

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 ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a ‘disability confident’ employer.

Benefits

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.

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.


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