Associate Director / Technical Director – Sustainable Industry and Resource Solutions

Ricardo; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricardo is seeking a self-motivated Associate Director / Technical Director focused on sustainable industry and resource solutions. This role involves driving business growth in areas like industrial decarbonisation, managing projects, and leading teams. The successful candidate will support bids, nurture client relationships, and contribute to strategic business development. Applicants should have expertise in energy-intensive processes, sustainability, and excellent consulting skills.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Support for mental and physical health

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience of energy-intensive processes / industries and/or CCUS.
• Deep technical experience related to industrial decarbonisation and CCUS.
• Excellent consulting skills with ability to develop other team members.

Responsibilities

• Programme Management for multiple projects.
• Supporting bids and proposals.
• 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 mentoring and coaching support.
• Supporting the development of business plans and growth strategy.

Skills

Energy-intensive processes

CCUS

Waste and resource management

Decarbonisation

Sustainability

Project management

Client relationship management

Technical leadership

Business development skills

Communication (oral and written)

Job description

Overview

Role: Associate Director / Technical Director – Sustainable Industry and Resource Solutions

Location: London, Harwell, Glasgow, Shoreham, Bristol, Manchester, Brussels, Madrid, Dubai, Abu Dhabi- Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-2975

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.

We are looking for a self-motivated Associate Director / Technical Director who can drive Ricardo’s private sector and international business growth across a portfolio of services that includes industrial decarbonisation and CCUS, waste and resource management and sustainability, and lead project delivery in one of these areas.

Key Responsibilities

The successfulcandidate 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 developmentof the business plans and growth strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of energy-intensive processes / industries and/or CCUS, or waste and resource management, and net zero, decarbonisation or sustainability.
• Familiarity with evolving industrial, sustainability and decarbonisation context and trends.
• Deep technical experience related to industrial decarbonisation and CCUS, waste and resource management or sustainability, ideally supported by experience of winning and delivering assignments in these disciplines 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.
• Willingness to travel locally and overseas.

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 [e-mail] you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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