Overview
Role: Energy System and Solution Economist
Locations: Madrid, New Delhi, London & Glasgow - Hybrid
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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 role We are looking for a consultant or senior consultant economist to join our Future Energy Solutions team and support deliver our global portfolio of energy transition and development projects.
The Team The Future Energy Solutions team comprises a group of highly experienced professionals specialising in engineering techno-economic, and management consultancy services for the energy sector. We cover renewable power generation, battery storage, clean fuels production, energy infrastructure transition, electricity transmission and distribution planning, energy tariff and regulation, renewable energy integration, energy market design and energy system innovation projects. We are a respected consultancy in the energy and environment 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.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery and Management
* Contribute to delivering our growing portfolio of clean energy projects, with a focus on delivering economic analysis and modelling tasks. This involves working within teams to achieve client satisfaction, timely delivery, strong project financial performance and high-quality technical outputs.
* Where appropriate, project management and task lead as part of consultancy business in line with processes and governance, working in a matrix team environment. This includes project team mobilisation and leadership, project governance, reporting, client liaison, ensuring quality review.
* Contribution to wider energy infrastructure transition projects, supported by the experts consultants within the wider team.
* Support and lead the development of technical proposals within the energy infrastructure transition sector and provide ad hoc support across the wider team.
Technical Delivery & Leadership
* Continually develop technical expertise in clean energy and energy economics and provide to projects where required and aligned to areas of specialism.
* Write thorough and concise reports on complex topics and projects to a high professional standard.
* Supporting and reviewing the technical work of more junior team members, providing constructive feedback and supporting development
* Contribute to process improvements and, with more experience, uses best practice and knowledge to improve processes.
Client Relationships & Thought Leadership
* Develop and maintain strong client relationships and networks, though project delivered as well as through sector networking. Support key