Role: Consultant – Water Quality
Location: Bristol (hybrid working)
Salary range: £28,000 - £36,000 per annum plus benefits

Role ID: 2025 - 3073

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

The Water and Environment practice of Ricardo Energy & Environment, offers a comprehensive range of specialist services within the environmental consultancy sector. Nationally and internationally recognised for our expertise in planning and overseeing complex and sensitive projects, our skills have been utilised by a wide range of clients within the public and private sectors including the European Commission, government, water companies and developers.

We are looking for a consultant to join our Water team, to support our novel and cutting edge projects.  We provide environmental monitoring and assessment support to water companies, airports, developers and other commercial organisations, where high quality data capture and analysis is essential to assess and inform environmental assessments.

The successful candidate will form part of the team working across a variety of projects in our water, ecology and environmental impact assessment teams. There is also the opportunity to work with other parts of our business with the aim of helping to develop a portfolio of projects where our water related expertise can complement other environmental assessments.

Key accountabilities

• Fieldwork lead for water quality surveys in surface water and groundwater environments
• Data collection through site surveys and monitoring programmes.
• Data processing, analysis, interpretation and visualisation using Excel and GIS.
• Desk studies, literature reviews, option appraisals, impact assessment and reporting.
• Monitoring programme coordination, including laboratory suppliers and resource management.
• Project management.

Key competencies and experience

Essential

• Bachelors (2.1 or above) and ideally a post graduate degree in a relevant subject,
• Understanding of the UK water industry – at least 2 years
• Thorough experience of using Excel and GIS packages (such as ArcGIS and QGIS).
• Experience of reviewing and interpreting datasets, with excellent analytical skills.
• Effective report writing skills.
• Ability to fault find and problem solve in challenging environments.
• Effective time management skills.
• Willingness to learn from contributing to a broad range of fieldwork and office-based tasks.
• A full UK driver’s licence.

Advantageous

• Experience of leading survey teams in challenging river and estuarine environments
• Experience of airside working at UK airports
• Water safety training
• GIS skills
• Powerboat licence.

Skills and behaviours

• Excellent team working
• Strong communication skills and a close attention to detail
• Enthusiastic, keen to learn and able to act quickly and flexible across projects
• Excellent report writing
• Ambitious, enthusiastic and self-motivated to thrive in this busy and demanding environment
• Good IT skills commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office, internet, email and GIS
• Self-organized

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. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

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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