Middle East Graduate / Analyst Consultant - Waste and Resource Management

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.

Role Purpose

We are seeking a graduate or recent graduate to join our Waste and Resource Management team as an Analyst Consultant. You'll be part of a team supporting senior consultants in delivering high-profile 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 Ricardo's 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 report-writing.
• Ensure the quality and timely delivery of your work, collaborating with experts and consultants to integrate your contributions.
• Support senior consultants in delivering high-profile projects on policy, strategy, waste operations, and infrastructure.
• Meet time, cost, and quality requirements to ensure client satisfaction.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (2.1 or above) in engineering or an environmental-related field.
• Excellent numeracy, analytical, and writing skills.
• Proactive approach with a commitment to high-quality work.
• Interest in waste and resource management and creative problem-solving.
• 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 customer-facing 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. 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

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 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.

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