Role: Associate Director / Business Director - Energy Infrastructure Transition, North America

Location: Virginia, US - On Site / Remote

Role ID: 2024-2586

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.

Key Purpose

Providing strategic advisory, consulting and owner’s engineering services across wide range of energy and infrastructure transition areas including Industrial Decarbonisation, Carbon Capture, and Energy Management.

In addition the successful candidate is expected to support business development activities and development of new technology and digital solutions

Business structure / reporting

Reporting to the Business Area Managers, Regional Leaders or potentially directly to VP of EIT depending on the position offered

Key accountabilities

• Working collaboratively as a part of the team, lead project delivery of consulting assignments as requested for industrial decarbonisation, energy management systems, carbon capture, combined heat and power, heat pumps, manufacturing processes, or other relevant energy transition areas.
• Provide required technical and commercial leadership and governance for consulting assignments as requested.
• Hands-on delivery leadership with an ability to develop project reports and other critical deliverables as required (including process and utility system design, equipment specifications etc)
• Provide technical leadership for all parts of the consulting assignment including assessment of key technologies offered by licenses or major OEMs.
• Proactively lead development of subject matter thought leadership, white papers and promote Ricardo’s solutions and capabilities through events, conferences and other marketing channels
• Support business area managers in developing new solutions and engaging with customers as a part of ongoing consulting assignments as well as business development related activities as requested.
• Provide required support to-wards various internal and external initiatives including development of digital tools, marketing materials, market research and technology solutions.
• Work with Business Area Managers to train, develop and mentor young professionals in the team supporting their individual capabilities development.
• Lead proposal development process as requested ensuring compliance to Ricardo’s internal approval and quality processes.
• Proactively assess new market developments and emerging challenges in the energy transition space. Share notable developments with the EIT leadership team.

Key competencies

We are not specific with regard to exact qualifications or years of experience, the sucessful candidate will bring the energy and capability to support business growth areas with the following background experiences:

• Degree in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Ability to connect and communicate with Customers at all levels.
• Be recognized as a subject matter expert in one or more subject matter areas.
• Experience of US Government contracting and project delivery for organizations such as DOE, EPA, DOT, DOD, or other.
• Appropriate industry and market knowledge relevant to the Practice and associated markets/sectors.
• Sound understanding of industrial decarbonisation, manufacturing processes, combine heat and power systems and/or heat pumps, carbon storage, and carbon capture utilization.
• Prior experience delivering consulting assignments including developing key strategy, commercial and technical deliverables suitable for concept, feasibility projects and owner’s engineer.
• Ability to think strategically and presenting ideas in a concise and logical manner.
• Ability to understand complex problems and develop a value-based proposition for customers to solve those problems.
• Leading people – development, mentoring and coaching of individuals and being an inspirational presence for the wider business.
• Commercial acumen.
• Experience of working in a complex / matrix global organization.

Skills and behaviours

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Embrace the Ricardo Values, to create a supportive, engaging and challenging environment for our people.
• Analytical, with the ability to make connections across a complex organization.
• Professional, diligent and good communicator.

Additional features of the role

• Some domestic and international travel.
• Potentially managing a small team of individuals as required.

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.

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 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 as a 'disability confident' employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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 recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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