Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive and reflective of experience

About the Role
Ricardo Energy & Environment, a member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company with over 100 years of engineering excellence. We employ close to 3,000 people across more than 20 countries, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to complex challenges. Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

The Energy Infrastructure Transition Practice supports private organisations, industry associations, and public sector clients in transitioning their energy infrastructure towards a net-zero future. This role focuses on enabling large energy users and energy hubs, including maritime, rail, industrial users, and communities, to transition power demand, generation, and clean fuel infrastructure.

You will contribute to network innovation projects with power utilities and industry stakeholders, delivering research, trials, power systems analysis, technoeconomic modelling, programme management, and stakeholder engagement. This includes assessing decarbonisation opportunities and grid impacts, with recent projects involving rail-power system integration and renewable fuels for maritime clients.

The role also involves providing technical services to utilities, including generation connection compliance and technical standards reviews. You will provide technical leadership within the delivery team, support business development activities such as project ideation, tender bidding, and client presentations.

This is an opportunity to work across diverse projects, clients, industries, and locations, helping clients design and implement strategies and roadmaps to decarbonise energy infrastructure and power systems globally.

Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and manage a growing portfolio of clean energy infrastructure projects for private, public, and industry clients.
- Lead project teams, ensuring client satisfaction, timely delivery, financial performance, and high-quality technical outputs.
- Manage project governance, reporting, client liaison, and quality assurance.
- Contribute to wider energy infrastructure transition projects with expert support.
- Lead development of technical proposals and support business growth.
- Develop and maintain strong client relationships and sector networks.
- Provide thought leadership on energy infrastructure transition at industry events.
- Some domestic and international travel may be required for meetings and conferences.

Experience
- Degree or higher in electrical engineering, renewable energy, energy transition, sustainable infrastructure, power systems, or related discipline.
- Proven technical delivery experience in renewables and/or power sectors, with a focus on energy infrastructure or project implementation.
- Consultancy experience or demonstrable skills relevant to consultancy project delivery.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for working with multidisciplinary, geographically dispersed teams.
- Confident presenter to diverse audiences including senior client representatives.
- Effective time management and ability to prioritize multiple projects.
- Fluency in English with excellent report writing skills.

About You
- Motivated to lead complex consultancy or implementation projects.
- Skilled in business development, including proactive client engagement and tender bidding.
- Ability to leverage sector contacts to build trust-based client and partner relationships.
- Familiarity with technical analysis methods such as Cost Benefit Analysis, quantitative scenarios, and modelling.
- Experience with renewable energy systems and/or smart port technologies is highly desirable.
- Additional language skills, particularly Spanish or other European languages, are a bonus but not essential.

Qualifications
- Relevant degree or higher qualification as noted above.
- Continuous professional development in energy infrastructure and transition sectors is advantageous.