.OverviewRole: Senior Technical Consultant, Waste Infrastructure and TechnologyLocation: UK Flexible and SpainRole ID: 2024-2407Our 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.Role Summary We are currently looking to expand our team with senior/principal technical consultants with experience of waste infrastructure and processing technologies, to service our expanding client list within the UK, the Middle East and Australia. In this role, you may be expected to get involved in a broad range of projects involving a wide variety of waste treatment technologies such as thermal treatment, Anaerobic Digestion, Material Recovery Facilities (MRF), composting and others.Key Responsibilities* Lead/input to the provision of technical advice relating to waste treatment processes and technologies.
- Managing projects and liaising with clients in the UK, Europe, Middle East and other territories.
- Review of process and engineering documents such as P&IDs, PFDs, equipment schedules, design specifications, mass/energy balances and other common technical documents.
- Production of feasibility and scoping studies to assist clients in making financial investment decisions
- Produce basis of design documentation and technical specifications.
- Review of facilities and technologies and assessment of compliance with health and safety requirements, legislative requirements, established industry "Best Practice", user requirements, cost budgets and time scales.
- Managing the work of other junior engineers and coaching and mentoring more junior staff.
- Ensure cross discipline collaboration with other consultants and engineers, both within Ricardo and with external clients and contractors.
- Lead and manage internal teams in the production of bids, tenders and project work.Key Competencies and ExperienceEssential* Degree qualified engineer with broad technical capabilities in process, mechanical, electrical or other engineering fields.
- Willingness to travel for the delivery of projects, including within Europe and the Middle East.
- Good knowledge of waste treatment processes and technologies, ideally with hands-on experience.
- Remain up to date with waste industry developments, trends, legislation and best practice.
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Ability to mentor and support the development of junior engineers.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail and desire to deliver influential consultancy support to the highest standards with new and current clients
