Junior Consultant

Role: US Railway Jr. Engineering Consultant

Location: United States - Hybrid/Flexible 

Role ID: 2024-2256

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

Our US rail team is looking for a engineering graduate to join the team as a Jr. Engineering Consultant with the potential to become technical consultants and future leaders of the business.

This role will provide the perfect first step into a consultancy career in an exciting and rapidly changing sector. The successful applicant will have  strong writing skills, a proactive, organised approach, and a commitment to producing high quality work with a high level of attention to detail.

We provide our clients – transit authorities, train operators, manufacturers, maintenance companies, infrastructure companies and industry regulators – with specialist technical support to help improve performance across every aspect of their operations.

Key Responsibilities

As a Jr. Engineering Consultant, you will manage your time across several projects, contributing at all phases - from supporting the preparation of proposals to win new contracts, through delivering the project and liaising with clients. You will be responsible for the quality and delivery of your work and liaise with other consultants to incorporate your contribution into wider project outputs.

We will also devote time to help you acquire valuable client management techniques and important ‘soft’ skills – delivering presentations, project management, people management etc. – to build up your commercial strengths.

Key Competencies and Experience

• A relevant engineering degree such as electrical, mechanical, systems or railway engineering discipline. 
• An interest in the rail sector.
• The desire to work on a variety of projects in multidisciplinary teams.
• The ambition and confidence to become a technical consultant and a future leader.
• The conviction that you can make a real difference to peoples’ lives and their environment through your expertise.
• Strong interpersonal skills combined with client-focus and a hands-on approach.
• A drive for continuous self-development.
• Excellent organisational/planning skills
• Ability to work in a consultancy environment.
• Excellent numeracy and analytical skills gained from an engineering background.

Global Opportunties

You will gain all the benefits you can expect from a career in a respected technical consulting organisation like Ricardo, whether that involves taking advantage of opportunities to work on international assignments; a period embedded ‘full time’ on-site within client project teams; or just by being part of a global community of engineering graduates developing their knowledge and careers together. We have teams working on railway projects in China, Australia, Middle East, Netherlands, Canada, and the US.

As part of the Ricardo Group, we are also closely aligned with the Energy and Environment Business and Automotive Business and there are opportunities to work across these teams to gain broader experience.

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

Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, medical benefits, mental health, and support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.

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 *******@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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