Environmental Consultant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Ricardo Energy & Environment

Ricardo Energy & Environment
Ricardo Energy & Environment
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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Overview:

Role:
Environmental Consultant - Drones and Remote Sensing


Location:
UK - Harwell, Glasgow, Manchester, London, Bristol, Hybrid


Salary range:
£26,000 to £34,000 plus benefits


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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, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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.


Energy & Environment, one of Ricardo plc's five operating business units, is a leader in sustainability consultancy, solving complex environmental challenges through industry-leading analysis, advice and data.

With more than 40 years of heritage in addressing air quality, environmental and sustainability issues, our customers value us for our deep understanding and breadth of services covering the entire value chain from evidence, policy & strategy to implementation.


We are currently looking for an Analyst Consultant to join our Water team to support our drone capabilities and being able to demonstrate the added value of using drones for environmental assessment in the water and ecology sector.

The role holder will also be expected to support a range of GIS and analytical tasks.


Key responsibilities

  • Input drone/UAV outputs into GIS and undertake geospatial data processing.
  • Understanding how to link geospatial data process to other open source data and analyse the relevance related to a range of open source data and analysis.
  • Work with the wider team to deliver programmes of work.
  • Help drive GIS capabilities in across water and ecology teams.

Key competencies, skills and experience:


  • A relevant environmental degree with GIS/Remote sensing experience.
  • A strong understanding of ecological and water data and reasons for assessment of data for clients.
  • Relevant experience with QGIS, WebODM/Agisoft/Pix4Dmapper (or similar).
  • Relevant experience with drone imagery/orthophoto analysis and manipulation.
  • Detailed understanding of thermal imagery, multispectral imagery and lidar data.
  • Knowledge of remote sensing including LiDAR, multispectral and thermal imaging.
  • Innovative and keen to drive forward business ideas in this area.
  • Consultancy or similar experience.
  • Ambition to learn.

Desirable:


  • Drone (RPAS/UAV) piloting experience (although training can be provided).
  • Experience in creating flight plans and creating orthophotos.

Skills and behaviours

  • Collaborative team working and communication skills.
  • The ability to manage and prioritise workload and assist others in doing so.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment and complete tasks on time and budget.

Working here
Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals.

Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development.

We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.


Wellbeing and work life balance


We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's 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.

Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.


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 ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.


Benefits


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 benefi
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