Senior Project Engineer, Control SystemsVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Degree in Engineering, Control / Electrical / Electronics or similar.
• Experience in successful deployment of controls for complex systems.
• Solid understanding of physical principles and control techniques.
• Fluency in model-based development languages for control software deployment, especially MATLAB-Simulink.

What you’ll do

• Technical development of control solutions, covering requirements specification, algorithm development, component selection, implementation, calibration and validation.
• Development of Model-in-Loop and Hardware-in-Loop test facilities to support control development.
• Support control strategy development on bench rigs, on testbeds, and on-vehicle.
• Technical analysis to achieve tasks with sound evidence base.
• Responsibility for delivering assigned tasks to time, cost and quality on customer projects.
• Interface directly with clients on technical issues.
• Liaison with wider team members to organise and deliver project activities as required.
• Reporting of technical status internally and to customers.
• Supervision of junior team members on assigned tasks.
• A certain amount of business travel can be expected including customer meetings, occasional on-site development support, and travel to other Ricardo sites.

About the position

Ricardo, member of WSP, 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. Our Control and Electronics group is responsible for the specification, implementation and validation of control systems for a wide range of complex, clean propulsion and energy systems, including: xEV powertrains, power electronics, motors and drives, engines, transmissions, battery management systems, advanced thermal systems, and fuel cell systems. Our support to customers covers the full spectrum of control development, from core algorithm development, through to fully validated production control software (including safety software).

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.