Contractor - Senior Energy Systems Consultant

Overview

Role: Contractor - Senior Energy Systems Consultant

Locations: UK, Spain, USA, Australia, UAE

Role ID: 2024-2629

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 team

The Sustainable Energy Systems Team comprises a group of highly experienced professionals specializing in engineering techno-economic and management consultancy services for the energy sector, with particular emphasis on the energy sector. We cover both power consultancy (renewable generation, network technologies, EVs, and smart grids) and future fuels consultancy (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, SAFs). Across both technical areas, our activity splits into:

• Strategy: Portfolio assessment, technology screening, corporate strategy, policy & regulation
• Consultancy: From pre-feasibility to concept engineering and technical due diligence, through technology innovation trials
• Owner's engineering: Oversight of construction and operation of power/fuel assets on behalf of the project owner

The Role

As our workload grows, we are seeking experienced Associate/Contractor Energy Consultants to join our team on a contract/ad-hoc basis, providing support across our projects and workstreams.

A subject matter expert with experience in one or more of the following topics (please indicate which specific technical skills your application meets in your cover letter - e.g. A1, B3). In their cover letter, candidates must demonstrate experience in at least one topic (but not necessarily any more than one).

Technical Skills

A - Clean Power experts

• Power sector economic (e.g. ratemaking) and/or technical (e.g. licensing, grid code) regulation for utilities or regulators.
• Strategy consulting: portfolio assessment, technology screening, corporate strategy for RE/BESS developers, economic/financial modelling.
• Pre-feasibility, Value Engineering, Site optimisation for RE/BESS projects.
• Concept design for RE/BESS projects.
• Fuel feasibility studies, technical due diligence for RE/BESS projects.
• Owner's engineering for RE/BESS projects.
• Design and execution of innovation trials for network technologies (e.g. smart grids)
• Power Systems Modelling (PSCAD, DigSilent, IPSA)
• Transmission system operations.
• Pre-feasibility, Value Engineering for transmission projects.
• Concept design for transmission projects.
• Fuel feasibility studies, technical due diligence for transmission projects.
• Owner's engineering for transmission projects.
• Energy audits

B - Fuels experts

• Economic and/or technical, safety regulation for fuels.
• Strategy consulting: portfolio assessment, technology screening, corporate strategy for hydrogen and other fuel technology developers, economic/financial modelling.
• Pre-feasibility, Value Engineering, Site optimisation for hydrogen and other fuel technology projects.
• Concept design for hydrogen and other fuel technology projects.
• Fuel feasibility studies, technical due diligence for hydrogen and other fuel technology projects.
• Owner's engineering for hydrogen and other fuel technology projects.
• Hydrogen storage and transportation.

Consultancy Skills

In addition, all candidates should demonstrate ALL of the consultancy skills listed below:

• Substantial professional experience.
• Senior role in Engineering Consultancy or EPC.
• Proficiency with excel modelling.
• Customer-facing experience.
• Excellent English report writing skills.

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 via [HIDDEN TEXT] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.