Project Manager (Environmental Consulting)

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. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our Water Practice.

Key responsibilities:

• Project management that includes ensuring the necessary project data and information (such as risks and issues and financial and resource forecasts) are fed through the 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.
• Work with both the internal and client project teams to agree 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 and take appropriate action to maintain delivery if necessary.
• Record and track risks, issues and changes that could impact on delivery and ensure that appropriate actions are identified, owned and implemented at the right level.

Key competencies and experience:

• Project management knowledge and skills related to budgeting, scheduling, resource management, monitoring, reporting and delivery.
• Ideally experience of project management from a consultancy perspective and practical knowledge of managing projects from start to finish.
• The ability to manage a range of multiple projects simultaneously.
• An understanding of resource management in order to support in the identification and securing of the appropriate capability and capacity from the technical teams across multiple projects.
• An understanding of the water sector primarily in the UK and the role of our water industry clients (water companies, water regulators and government).
• An awareness that encompasses environmental assessment associated with our water industry clients (for example, Environmental Impact Assessment, Water Framework Directive, Habitat Regulation Assessment, Natural Capital and Biodiversity Net Gain).
• Sufficient technical understanding to support our technical leads and specialists to integrate and co-ordinate complex work strands.
• Experience of stakeholder communications and management.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with the internal project team, client and other internal and external stakeholders through project activities.
• Have a relevant degree that ideally demonstrates an environmental background.
• Preferably a professional qualification in project management.

Skills and behaviours:

• An effective and collaborative approach to working with the project team, sub-contractors/contractors, clients and stakeholders to help achieve positive outcomes for projects.
• Excellent team working skills together with strong communication skills and a close attention to detail.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills and an ability to drive a project forward within budget and on time.
• The necessary IT skills to ensure that appropriate internal and external project management data and information is compliant and delivered.
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment whilst at the same time work closely with Project Directors and teams from a range of disciplines.

Working with Ricardo:

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 of 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. 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.

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. 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.