Senior / Principal Consultant - Chemical and Response Training

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 Chemical and Response Training team was created to revolutionise hazardous materials incident management by providing a solution that both meets individuals' needs but also considers the challenges faced by organisations today. Due to the strong growth in orders, we are now looking to expand our team.

The purpose of the role will be to lead on the delivery of our private sector work in this area, with a key focus being on supporting companies with incident response in the chemical and wider industry sector. We are looking for a candidate who can make a strong contribution to the success of the team enabling us to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations.

This role would be suited to a candidate with a background dealing with and managing incidents. This could be from an emergency services or military career or current roles in business continuity or incident management at related organisations (NHS Trusts, R&D Manufacturers, Chemical Sector). The role will include the delivery of technical consultancy to organisations around the globe, which means you may be required to deliver high quality training to, sometimes, very large, diverse, groups of delegates. The training will be focused on incident management, so experience delivering training and development within emergency or crisis management context is desirable but not essential.

• To support capability development at private sector clients, at locations both within the UK and overseas (may also include some public sector delivery).
• To support and/or lead consultancy projects being delivered, by both internal and associate teams, on behalf of clients.
• Working closely with existing customers and partners to further develop relationships.
• Provide input to the plans to support the growth of the area.
• Use own existing network, or develop a network of key contacts, to uncover new market requirements and develop courses to deliver based on the market need.

• Experience of working as part of an incident response team including responding to and managing incidents.
• Proven track record of managing incidents effectively and being able to share post-incident information to improve safety, processes etc.
• Highly organised team player with strong relationship management skills.
• Experience of training and mentoring other members of the team.
• Proven track record of creation and delivery of training packages/programmes.
• Ability to work independently, prioritising own work and delivering to deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience of communicating complex or scientific information to a range of internal and/or external customers.
• Ability to work closely with stakeholders to identify exact requirements for a response team.

• Experience of working with a range of customers, coupled with a strong commercial understanding.
• Experience of working with the emergency services, or similar, as a responder or in a training delivery capacity.
• Teaching qualification such as Award in Education and Teaching or equivalent.
• Knowledge/experience in working within a chemical or hazmat context.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to join a market leading team who are committed to delivering high quality consultancy to organisations in the UK and across the globe. By joining the Ricardo’s Chemical and Response Training team, you will have the opportunity to work with the emergency services, government research organisations and the private sector, alongside some of the most experienced trainers in the UK.

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.

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 of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

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. 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.

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. 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 recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.