Overview:
Role: Middle East Waste and Resource Management Consultant
Location: Abu Dhabi / Dubai
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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 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leadingedge and innovative crosssector 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.
Role Purpose
We are seeking a graduate or recent graduate to join our Waste and Resource Management team as an Analyst Consultant. Youll be part of a team supporting senior consultants in delivering highprofile projects. Our work covers a broad range of topics from supporting on policy and strategy to complex technical projects covering waste operations and infrastructure. You will also have the opportunity to support projects in other parts of Ricardos business including sustainability water air quality climate change and energy.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct research and analysis to support our consultancy work.
- Manage time across multiple projects contributing to research data analysis fieldwork stakeholder engagement and reportwriting.
- Ensure the quality and timely delivery of your work collaborating with experts and consultants to integrate your contributions.
- Support senior consultants in delivering highprofile projects on policy strategy waste operations and infrastructure.
- Meet time cost and quality requirements to ensure client satisfaction.
Key Competencies and Experience
- Bachelors degree (2.1 or above) in engineering or an environmentalrelated field.
- Excellent numeracy analytical and writing skills.
- Proactive approach with a commitment to highquality work.
- Interest in waste and resource management and creative problemsolving.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong computer skills particularly in MS Excel and Word.
- Willingness to develop competency in the waste sector through projects.
- Interest in fieldwork including site visits and waste compositional analysis especially in the UAE and wider region.
- Fluency in English and native Arabic speaker.
- Ability to meet multiple deadlines and manage competing priorities.
Desirable Competencies and Experience
- Understanding of international environmental policy issues.
- Knowledge of Middle Eastern environmental legislative frameworks.
- Experience with Excel modeling (pivot tables macros) and analysis.
- Experience in consultancy or customerfacing commercial roles.
- Willingness to travel internationally for projects.
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. Were 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 persons potential and well 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 proactively 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 confidential if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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