Associate Director (Water & Environmental Management)

Ricardo Energy & Environment

Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

London, UK 🇬🇧

Harwell, UK 🇬🇧

Manchester, UK 🇬🇧

Role Title: Associate Director – Water & Environmental Management

Location: Flexible/ Bristol/ London / Harwell/ Manchester

Salary Range: £55,000 – £75,000 plus benefits 

Role ID: 2023-1840

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.

This is a great opportunity to further develop your career through both working with our clients to bring in new projects of work too. There will be a range of water projects such as regional water resources plans, water company drought and water resources plans, drought permit applications and monitoring programmes.

This role forms part of a wider dynamic team of multi-disciplinary water and environmental experts that includes specialists in the fields of water resources, hydro-ecology, ground and surface water hydrology, flood risk, geomorphology, water quality, aquatic and terrestrial ecology, natural capital, environmental impact assessment and planning.

Purpose of role

Our excellent track record in supporting the water industry and airports is resulting in substantial and exciting growth of our Water & Environment Team. We have established long-term relationships with many of the UK’s water companies and airport operators. Consequently, we are servicing multiple environmental frameworks and some sizeable capital water and wastewater projects. Our growing focus on water and environmental solutions, alongside a wider array of consultancy services, means we are seeking to appoint an experienced Associate Director with both a strong technical background and the ability to oversee projects and programmes of work throughout their lifecycle.

Key accountabilities

Critical to this role is understanding various environmental strands and linkages to support us in helping solve sometimes complex environmental challenges with a well organised and collaborative approach. Together with strong project/programme management/direction skills, you will have an ambition to help drive our business forward by delivering excellent services and winning new work.  A key requirement is for the effective oversight of large projects and programmes of work, from leading on bidding through to execution and close-out.  The role will require good commercial understanding and the ability to own client and stakeholder relationships. Maintaining quality of service provision is essential, whilst balancing client needs and environmental regulatory requirements within the confines of contractual terms. People manager experience is required, as direct management of a team is envisaged as being required. An appetite and experience in developing new business would also be welcome.

Key competencies and experience

We are looking to appoint an experienced Associate Director who has relevant experience in the UK water sector and potentially beyond.  Of particular interest is an understanding of and experience in one or more water related environmental technical discipline aligned to water management or water quality.  We also require the following key competencies and experience:

  • Excellent understanding of the UK water industry and its regulation.
  • Ability to oversee technically complex and large water environmental projects.
  • Strong project and programme management/direction skills to ensure a high level of service.
  • Experience in managing proposals and winning work of a sizeable value.
  • Appreciable people manager experience, involving supporting the development of staff.
  • An environmentally related degree (ideally with a post-graduate qualification also).
  • A clean full UK driving licence. 

 Skills and behaviours

  • Excellent organisational, communication and presentation skills.
  • Commercial adeptness and skill in tightly managing project finances.
  • Collaborative people manager who has ability to develop and support others.
  • Ability to effectively manage resources and prioritise own and others’ workload.
  • Effective multi-stakeholder management skills, including internally and externally.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage significant operational demands and pressures.
  • Client-facing, opportunistic and comfortable with developing new work.
  • Keen to develop and own segments of our service offering.

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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