Maritime Consultant

Ricardo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Maritime Consultant to contribute to decarbonisation projects for diverse clients. The role demands a degree in a relevant field like engineering or maritime studies, along with experience in policy consultancy. Successful candidates will support the development of technical strategies and proposals, and must possess strong analytical and communication skills. This hybrid position allows flexibility in working arrangements while ensuring a collaborative environment that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health support

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Degree (Bachelors or higher) required in a relevant discipline.
• Experience in policy consultancy or advisory roles.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize data.

Responsibilities

• Support maritime decarbonisation projects for clients.
• Contribute to policy design and techno-economic analysis.
• Assist in developing technical proposals.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in engineering, maritime studies, or related field

Job description

Overview

Role: Maritime Consultant

Location: London or Harwell UK - Madrid Spain - Athens Greece - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-3104

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo member of WSP is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 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 Role

You’ll play a key part in offering independent and impartial evidence to policymakers and advising maritime stakeholders on their strategies to decarbonise. You’ll deliver this technical capability across the full product life cycle and in multiple international markets that few others are able to match. We are particularly interested in candidates with a technical background (e.g. naval architecture or marine engineering) who can apply their practical understanding of vessels propulsion and alternative fuels to support both policy projects and wider maritime decarbonisation assignments. You’ll join a team helping clients to assess design and implement the most effective strategies policies and solutions to make their maritime transport systems more efficient, sustainable and resilient.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of maritime decarbonisation projects for private public and industry clients.
• Contribute to projects involving: policy design and evaluation, techno-economic analysis, scenario modelling and assessment of economic and social impacts.
• Assist in developing technical proposals (mainly maritime with wider team support as needed).
• Keep up to date with maritime technology developments, trends, regulations and challenges.

Key Competencies & Experience

• Degree (Bachelors or higher) in a relevant discipline (e.g. engineering, maritime studies, economics, political science, sustainability).
• Experience in policy consultancy / advisory (public or private sector).
• Understanding of maritime sector operations, commercial context and sustainability challenges.
• Knowledge of European climate transport policies (e.g., Fit for 55).
• Familiarity with maritime policies (IMO, EU, regional frameworks).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesise data from multiple sources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with ability to explain technical topics clearly.
• Team player with experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong time management and ability to balance multiple projects and deadlines.
• Fluency in English and excellent report‑writing skills.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Experience developing / assessing maritime decarbonisation policies and strategies.
• Ability to leverage sector contacts to create opportunities and build relationships.
• Strong knowledge of economic analysis and policy evaluation methods.
• Understanding of vessel design operations, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
• Knowledge of technical measures, carbon pricing and MRV processes.
• Fluency in additional languages (esp. Europe, Latin America, South East Asia).
• Strong numerical modelling and coding skills.

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 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 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 if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.