Role: Senior / Principal Consultant - Process Engineering (Industrial Decarbonisation)

Location: India, New Delhi - Onsite

Role ID: 2025-2921

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

The Energy Infrastructure Transition Practice carries out projects on behalf of a mixture of industry, investors, associations and public sector clients, to help them transition businesses and energy infrastructure towards Net Zero in a competitive manner. Within this practice, we are expanding our work in industrial decarbonisation and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), supporting clients across multiple markets and geographies. Our projects span feasibility studies, policy and strategy development, technology assessments and implementation support.  You will play a key role in supporting Ricardo’s growing global portfolio in industrial decarbonisation and CCUS. You will contribute to technical delivery and client engagement, working alongside international experts to shape decarbonisation solutions for high-emitting industries. 

We encourage you to use your expertise to make a tangible impact through your work. Your technical insight, consulting skills and collaborative approach will be central to delivering high-quality outcomes that support a safer, more sustainable future. Ricardo promotes a flexible working environment. We welcome hybrid and remote working arrangements and wellbeing is at the heart of our company culture.

Key accountabilities

Project delivery and management

• Deliver technical inputs, analysis and day-to-day leadership for a portfolio of industrial decarbonisation and carbon capture (CCUS) projects, working within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Lead or support the management of projects and work packages, ensuring delivery on time, to budget and to a high technical standard.
• Support the resourcing and financial oversight of projects including budgeting, forecasting and tracking profitability.
• Engage with clients to understand needs and provide tailored, insightful advice.
• Ensure compliance with Ricardo’s project governance and quality assurance processes and contribute to development of best practices.
• Contribute to identifying new opportunities and developing proposals to maintain a healthy sales pipeline in the industrial decarbonisation and CCUS space.

Technical delivery and leadership

• Provide subject matter expertise in areas such as process efficiency, fuel switching (e.g. electrification, bioenergy and hydrogen), CCUS, low-carbon industrial technologies and complementary policies and infrastructure.
• Design, plan, conduct and review research, analysis and modelling to inform client recommendations.
• Working collaboratively with others, prepare high-quality written outputs including technical and non-technical reports and presentations.
• Mentor junior colleagues, supporting skill development and quality of delivery.

Client relationships and thought leadership

• Build and maintain strong client and partner relationships through projects and proactive engagement.
• Keep abreast of industry trends, policy developments and technological innovations.
• Support Ricardo’s position as a trusted adviser in industrial decarbonisation and CCUS.

Additional/special features of the role

• Occasional international travel may be required for project meetings, site visits and conferences.
• Able to work effectively as part of a geographically distributed team, with flexibility to accommodate time zone differences for regular collaboration with international colleagues.

Essential technical and professional skills, knowledge and qualification

• Excellent degree, Masters, or PhD in engineering, environmental science or a related STEM subject (preferably chemical or process engineering).
• Strong, demonstrable experience working in a consultancy environment is essential.
• Proven experience in industrial decarbonisation, energy-intensive sectors, or CCUS.
• Excellent written and spoken business English, with the ability to produce high-quality client reports, deliver presentations and engage confidently in meetings with international stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and communicate findings clearly.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and deliver multiple project tasks to deadline.

Desirable technical and professional skills, knowledge and qualification

• Experience managing complex consultancy projects.
• Track record in winning work, repeat business and contributing to business development.
• Understanding of economic appraisal techniques (e.g. cost-benefit analysis, scenario modelling).
• Ability to draw on professional networks to generate opportunities.
• Experience working with international clients, particularly in the UK, EU, Middle East or across APAC.
• Familiarity with decarbonisation technologies, policies, regulations, funding and financing mechanisms.
• Ability to bring the best out of others through collaborative working to meet objectives
• Additional language skills for markets with significant potential for industrial decarbonisation and CCUS.
• Comfortable in providing client leadership through uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity and volatility.

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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