Role: Research/Consultant – Energy Intensive Industries

Location: Athens, Greece or Prague, Czechia - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-2774

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.

Role Purpose
Do you have solid technical skills and a strong interest in European and international energy policy, with a special focus on energy-intensive industries (e.g., cement, steel, chemicals), their industrial processes, and energy efficiency?

We are looking for a self-driven, motivated analyst/modeller to join our EU offices in Athens to work alongside our energy system modelling team on high-standing consulting projects for international organisations, national governments, and the private sector.

Key Responsibilities

In this position, you will perform quantitative research to support various activities of the PRIMES energy system modelling team. More specifically, you will:

• Review, collect and process information from scientific, technical and market sources performing quantitative and qualitative assessment including structuring, keeping up-to-date and analysing large datasets relevant to energy, economy and industrial demand sectors.
• Operate, maintain and further develop the PRIMES model focusing on the modelling of industrial sectors.
• Contribute to technical and energy and climate policy quantitative analysis, lead and assist in the preparation and presentation of reports and related material, all while ensuring delivery within project timelines
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of sector technology developments, trends, challenges and regulations.

Key Competencies and Experience

• MSc or PhD in engineering, economics, applied mathematics or physics or any relevant disciplines.
• Experience in research and/or work experience in energy systems modelling, operations research, mathematical programming, and optimization modelling, especially focusing on process engineering and decarbonisation pathways for the industrial sectors.
• Quantitative modelling skills with experience in developing models and scenarios ideally related to the decarbonisation of the industrial sectors.
• Interest in energy system analysis and energy economics.
• Understanding of European and/or international energy and environmental policy issues
• Ability to use analytical and modelling tools, preferably GAMS or Python or R for modelling.
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly in Excel.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal communication.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset, collaborative attitude and be eager to learn.
• Proven writing skills gained through (co-) authorship of academic articles, technical and/or policy reports in English is an asset. .

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.

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. 

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.

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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