Renewables & Storage Lead - UK
Office Location
Bristol, Glasgow, Harwell, Manchester, Shoreham-by-Sea
Role Type
Permanent
Contract Type
Hybrid - commutable to office location
Closing Date
09 April 2025
Role ID
2025-2756
Our 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.
The team
The Energy team comprises a group of highly experienced professionals specialising in engineering techno-economic, and management consultancy services for the energy sector, with particular emphasis on the power sector. We cover power generation, transmission and distribution planning, electricity tariff and affordability studies, renewable energy integration, regulation, policy, power market design and “smart grid” innovation projects. We are a respected consultancy in the hydrogen sector and our depth and breadth of expertise and diverse portfolio provides potential candidates with a unique opportunity to work on such projects across the globe. We are a committed team of like-minded professionals with a growing portfolio of energy technology, policy and strategy projects.
The Role
We are looking for a high achiever to grow our renewables and storage consultancy and owner's engineering offering in the UK and support the delivery of projects in UK/Europe.
Essential skills:
* Strong technical background and consultancy experience in renewable/storage project development pre and post-FC.
* Track record of technical delivery in the UK/Europe renewables sector. Project management experience is a plus.
* Excellent commercial awareness and proven experience of sales, pipeline management and business development with an emphasis on the private sector.
* Good knowledge of and hands-on development experience with at least two of the following: utility scale and developers / funders.
* Experience with public procurement for clean power generation and/or storage.
* Experience with grid connection processes and engaging with utility planning and connection teams is a plus.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills including bid and report writing.
* Confident securing, coordinating and leading and customer facing engagements.
* Experience in defining the client's need and preparing successful proposals.
* Substantial professional experience.
Working here
You 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 balance
We 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.
Benefits
We 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.
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 to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
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.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.