Role: Contractor Diesel Calibration Engineer

Location: Shoreham - On-site Contractor role

Role ID: 2025-2877

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

Based out of Ricardo Shoreham Technical Centre, we are seeking a Senior Project Engineer in Diesel ICE Calibration, to deliver on-going client projects, primarily in Base Engine and Aftertreatment Calibration fields.

Our client list includes the world's major transportation Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s), supply chain organisations, energy companies, financial institutions & governments.

Our Calibration team is responsible for calibration and validation of complex control systems for a wide range of complex, clean propulsion and energy systems, including: engines, transmissions, xEV power-trains, power electronics, motors and drives, battery management systems, advanced thermal systems, and fuel cell systems. Our support to customers covers the full spectrum of calibration development, from feasibility studies, through to fully validated production calibration. In this role, you will be primarily working on Diesel engine and aftertreatment calibration development and validation, but may be expected to support other technical domains depending on the nature of the department workload.

Key responsibilities

To deliver client projects as part of a team:

• Technical development and validation of base engine and emissions control calibration including but not limited to air-charge, fuelling, EGR, DPF, SCR, etc.
• Technical development for engine emissions control
• Calibration development on engine test bench, chassis dynamo-meter and in vehicle on road
• Technical analysis to achieve tasks with sound evidence base
• Responsibility for delivering assigned tasks to time, cost and quality on customer projects
• Interface directly with clients on technical issues
• Liaison with wider team members to organise and deliver project activities as required
• Reporting of technical status internally and to customers
• Supervision of junior team members on assigned tasks.

Key Skills and Experience

The successful applicant will have a sound automotive engineering background, and a number of years of experience in successfully delivering projects in engine calibration or related disciplines. Strong technical background in the calibration of Engine Management Systems, knowledge of traditional calibration and data analysis tools such as INCA/MDA, knowledge of EMS strategies, and a sound understanding of engine fundamentals is required.

Good communication skills in English are required as the role is part of international team. The candidate will be expected to liaise with customers on a regular basis.

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 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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