Associate Director / Technical Director - Industrial Decarbonisation and CCUS

Ricardo

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 21 days ago
Overview:Role: Associate Director / Technical Director - Industrial Decarbonisation and CCUSLocation: London, Harwell, Glasgow, Shoreham, Bristol, Manchester, Netherlands, Singapore, Abu Dhabi - HybridRole ID: 2025-3041Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.Ricardo plc 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.We are looking for a self-motivated Associate Director / Technical Director who can drive Ricardo’s private sector and international business growth, and lead project delivery in industrial decarbonisation and CCUS.Key ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be working in a team, carrying out various activities including:
  • Programme Management for multiple projects.
  • Supporting bids and proposal.
  • Client relationship management.
  • Providing technical leadership to project teams.
  • Managing project portfolio including technical and financial performance.
  • Managing quality assurance on projects.
  • Managing the development of staff and providing them mentoring and coaching support.
  • Supporting and contributing to the development of the business plans and growth strategy.
Skills and Experience
  • Experience of energy-intensive processes / industries and/or CCUS.
  • Familiarity with evolving industrial and decarbonisation context and trends.
  • Deep technical experience related to process efficiency, fuel switching (e.g. electrification, bio-energy, waste, hydrogen and alternative fuels), CCUS and negative emissions technologies, ideally supported by experience of winning and delivering Feasibility Studies and/or Owners Engineer assignments in multiple countries.
  • Excellent consulting skills, with ability to develop other team members. These skills would including project leadership, problem solving, working with data, client/stakeholder leadership, project management, research, analysis, stakeholder management, technical project delivery, multi-tasking, organisation, attention to detail, critical thinking and communication (oral and written), ability to balance competing scope/time/cost/resource pressure deadlines across multiple projects, and working with a distributed team.
  • Excellent business development skills include networking, opportunity identification, sales pipeline management, proposal development, partnering, and negotiating pricing and commercial terms.
  • Experience with working with different countries and industry sectors.
Working hereYou 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 balanceWe 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.BenefitsWe 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 statementWe 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 stepsOnce 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 if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.#LI-ZP1#LI-Hybrid

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