Sustainability Project Manager

Overview

Role: Sustainability Project Manager

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1753

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 a Sustainability Project Manager to join our growing Sustainability team.

Purpose

The 80-person Sustainability team at Ricardo Energy & Environment has been in place for over 10 years helping clients to understand, and then reduce, their environmental and social impacts. With sustainability and Net Zero increasingly becoming part of day-to-day business, our strength in being an early trail-blazer for Net Zero strategies and working at the leading edge of decarbonisation technology development, means demand for our skills is higher than ever.

You will be a key part of the project management team within the Sustainability business area, a collaborative peer group of 10 experienced Project Managers who bring high quality, robust and insightful leadership to projects for new and existing clients. The team also provide mentorship of junior colleagues seeking to increase their experience of project management in a consultancy setting.

We are looking for a candidate with knowledge and appreciation of sustainability alongside project management experience. We also welcome applications from experienced project managers with over 6+ years of experience managing consultancy projects in other sectors with the right multidisciplinary skills.

Key competencies and experience

• 6+ years of experience in project management, ideally within consultancy and/or the environmental sector.
• Outstanding, planning, organisation, delegation and communication skills – to be tested through the interview process.
• Strong leadership skills, and the ability to form and maintain focused project teams within a matrix resourcing structure.
• A track record of delivering projects to time and budget and clear examples of problem solving and resolving challenges along the way.
• Experience of managing senior external stakeholders and large project teams.

Desirable Skills

• A project management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, APM,
• Experience within the consultancy sector, either in environmental consultancy or similar,
• Experience of ESG, sustainability, energy & carbon management, low carbon technologies, LCA or similar,
• Experience of working with one or more of our key client sectors: Airports, Automotive, Manufacturing, Food & Drink, Public Sector Estates.

Skills and Behaviours

• Be a team player able to work with and influence a wide range of stakeholders both inside and outside of the organisation.
• Be comfortable working on a variety of tasks and different projects in a fast-paced consultancy environment, with high levels of attention to detail.
• Develop sufficient knowledge of the project processes within our consultancy business to be able to propose and implement operational improvements in these areas.
• Be a leader, team worker who is willing and able to get involved in supporting colleagues on a range of project management and co-ordination tasks as required.
• Embrace Ricardo’s values of Passion, Innovation, Integrity and Respect, working with others towards ensuring high standards of behaviour and performance.

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.