Role: Project Manager - Water Sector (Consultant or Senior)
Location: UK / London / Harwell / Shoreham / Manchester / Bristol / Glasgow – Hybrid/Remote Working
Salary range: £30,000 - £45,000 per annum plus benefits (Depending on experience)
Role ID: 2024 - 2509
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.
We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our Water Practice.
Key responsibilities
* Manage portfolios of projects related to the water sector across a range of water, ecology, and environmental assessment disciplines.
* Ensure necessary project data and information are fed through appropriate channels and systems as part of the regular cycle of management and reporting.
* Work with internal project team to ensure requirements and their inputs are understood.
* Agree on a project plan (schedule) including key tasks, task owners, outputs, delivery dates, and dependencies for monitoring and tracking progress.
* Communicate, monitor, and track delivery against the agreed project plan.
* Provide clients with progress updates throughout the project.
* Record and track risks, issues, and changes that could impact delivery.
Key competencies and experience
* Project management knowledge and skills related to budgeting, scheduling, resource management, monitoring, reporting, and delivery.
* Experience of project management from a consultancy perspective.
* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
* Understanding of resource management to support the identification and securing of appropriate capability and capacity.
* Understanding of the water sector primarily in the UK.
* Awareness of environmental assessment associated with water industry clients.
* Sufficient technical understanding to support technical leads and specialists.
* Experience of stakeholder communications and management.
* Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal project teams and stakeholders.
* Relevant degree that ideally demonstrates an environmental background.
* Preferably a professional qualification in project management.
Skills and behaviours
* Effective and collaborative approach to working with project teams, clients, and stakeholders.
* Excellent team working and strong communication skills.
* Excellent planning and organisational skills.
* Necessary IT skills for project management data compliance.
* Enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in a busy environment.
Working with Ricardo
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We support you to find your place and encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Benefits
Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect how much you are valued. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive pension scheme, life assurance, and professional subscriptions reimbursement.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, believing in each person's potential, and we will help you reach yours. We value diversity, recognizing that a diverse workforce creates a richer working environment.
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