Principal Waste Infrastructure and Technology Contractor

Ricardo Rail

Key Responsibilities

• Lead/input to the provision of technical advice relating to waste treatment processes and technologies.
• Managing projects and liaising with clients in the Middle East, UK, and other territories.
• Review of process and engineering documents such as P&IDs, PFDs, equipment schedules, design specifications, mass/energy balances and other common technical documents.
• Production of feasibility and scoping studies to assist clients in making financial investment decisions.
• Produce basis of design documentation and technical specifications.
• Review of facilities and technologies and assessment of compliance with health and safety requirements, legislative requirements, established industry Best Practice , user requirements, cost budgets and time scales.
• Managing the work of other junior engineers and coaching and mentoring more junior staff.
• Ensure cross discipline collaboration with other consultants and engineers, both within Ricardo and with external clients and contractors.
• Lead and manage internal teams in the production of bids, tenders and project work.
• Perform due diligence on waste infrastructure including carrying out site assessments, process optimisation, commissioning and performance testing.
• Develop preliminary/concept design of waste infrastructure projects. Experience with FEED development also advantageous.
• Working as part of an Owners Engineer or Lenders Advisor team on waste infrastructure.

Skills and Behaviours

• Commercially minded technical consultant.
• Receptive to new and varied challenges, and able to rise to them and to learn.
• Able to work independently and as part of a project team, irrespective of position or role on the task.
• Self-motivated.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy and quality in all work.
• Good time management.
• Able to meet (multiple) deadlines and manage and deliver competing priorities.