Lead Rail Safety & Reliability Consultant

Arup; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Profit sharing

Job summary

Arup is seeking a Senior Consultant in Safety Risk and Reliability to lead safety assurance activities on rail projects and collaborate with clients, partners and ISAs/AsBo. You will apply hazard analysis techniques and safety case development across infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock and operations.

The role focuses on delivering defined workstreams, shaping safety strategy and supporting decarbonisation and digitalisation initiatives within the rail sector.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer with membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Strong experience leading safety and risk assessment programmes (qualitative and quantitative) in rail.
• Solid understanding of safety assurance activities required for rail system authorisation.
• Experience applying safety analysis techniques such as HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA.
• Experience with Independent Safety Assessors (ISA/AsBo) and safety assurance processes.
• Fluency in Danish, Dutch or German is advantageous for European projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of defined safety assurance tasks, work packages or small projects.
• Deliver system safety activities including hazard identification and risk assessment (HAZID/HAZOP/FTA).
• Chair and facilitate safety workshops with clients, partners and technical specialists.
• Coordinate and implement safety and risk engineering activities, safety case and safety justification development.
• Support clients adopting new or evolving technologies and emerging strategic challenges (Decarbonisation, Digitalisation, climate resilience).
• Collaborate with ISA/AsBo and support safety evidence preparation.

Skills

Chartered Engineer

Safety leadership

Risk assessment

Rail safety knowledge

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Chartered Engineer (PEng/CEng)

Job description

Arup is seeking a Senior Consultant in Safety Risk and Reliability to lead safety assurance activities on rail projects and collaborate with clients, partners and ISAs/AsBo. You will apply hazard analysis techniques and safety case development across infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock and operations.

The role focuses on delivering defined workstreams, shaping safety strategy and supporting decarbonisation and digitalisation initiatives within the rail sector.