Role Title: Senior / Principal Consultant - Chemical and Response Training
Location: London, Oxford, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, Shoreham - Hybrid
Job ID: 2024-2419
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 Chemical and Response Training team was created to revolutionise hazardous materials incident management by providing a solution that meets individuals' needs and considers the challenges faced by organisations today. Due to the strong growth in orders, we are now looking to expand our team.
The purpose of the role will be to lead on the delivery of our private sector work in this area, focusing on supporting companies with incident response in the chemical and wider industry sector. We are looking for a candidate who can make a strong contribution to the success of the team, enabling us to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations.
This role would be suited to a candidate with a background in dealing with and managing incidents. This could be from an emergency services or military career or current roles in business continuity or incident management at related organisations (NHS Trusts, R&D Manufacturers, Chemical Sector). The role will include the delivery of technical consultancy to organisations around the globe, which means you may be required to deliver high-quality training to large, diverse groups of delegates. The training will be focused on incident management, so experience delivering training and development within an emergency or crisis management context is desirable but not essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Support capability development at private sector clients, at locations both within the UK and overseas (may also include some public sector delivery).
- Support and/or lead consultancy projects being delivered by both internal and associate teams on behalf of clients.
- Work closely with existing customers and partners to further develop relationships.
- Provide input to the plans to support the growth of the area.
- Use existing network or develop a network of key contacts to uncover new market requirements and develop courses based on market needs.
Essential Competencies and Experience
- Experience of working as part of an incident response team, including responding to and managing incidents.
- Proven track record of managing incidents effectively and sharing post-incident information to improve safety and processes.
- Highly organised team player with strong relationship management skills.
- Experience of training and mentoring other team members.
- Proven track record of creation and delivery of training packages/programmes.
- Ability to work independently, prioritising own work and delivering to deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience of communicating complex or scientific information to a range of internal and/or external customers.
- Ability to work closely with stakeholders to identify exact requirements for a response team.
Desirable
- Experience of working with a range of customers, coupled with a strong commercial understanding.
- Experience of working with the emergency services, or similar, as a responder or in a training delivery capacity.
- Teaching qualification such as Award in Education and Teaching or equivalent.
- Knowledge/experience in working within a chemical or hazmat context.
This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to join a market-leading team committed to delivering high-quality consultancy to organisations in the UK and across the globe. By joining Ricardo’s Chemical and Response Training team, you will have the opportunity to work with emergency services, government research organisations, and the private sector, alongside some of the most experienced trainers in the UK.
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 depending 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 if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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