Senior Rail Safety & Risk Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Profit Share

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Accident insurance

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Arup invites applications for a Senior Consultant in Safety Risk and Reliability based in the UK rail sector. You will lead safety assurance activities across defined workstreams, delivering hazard analyses and safety cases on complex infrastructure programs.

You will collaborate with clients, ISA/AsBo partners and technical specialists to apply first principles engineering and UK/European standards, guiding projects from concept through to placing into service.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer with membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Strong experience leading safety and risk assessment programmes (qualitative and quantitative) and experience in system safety engineering within the rail sector.
• Proven understanding of safety assurance activities required to achieve Authorisation for Placing into Service for rail systems, subsystems or assets and solid understanding of UK and European railway legislation and standards (ROGS, CSM RA, NTSNs, TSIs, EN 50126/50129/50116).
• Experience applying safety analysis techniques such as HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA, and developing safety cases and safety justifications.
• Worked across multiple elements of the rail value chain (infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock, communications or operations).
• Experience working with Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo) and supporting independent safety assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of defined safety assurance tasks, work packages or small projects, managing outputs to time, cost and quality.
• Deliver system safety activities including hazard identification, analysis and risk assessment (e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA).
• Chair and facilitate safety workshops with clients, partners and technical specialists.
• Coordinate and implement technical safety and risk engineering activities, including hazard identification and analysis, safety case and safety justification development, and safety management systems.
• Support risk reduction and assurance in accordance with industry standards, regulatory expectations and engineering principles.
• Work with clients to introduce new or evolving technologies and respond to strategic challenges (Decarbonisation, Digitalisation, Climate resilience).

Job description

Arup invites applications for a Senior Consultant in Safety Risk and Reliability based in the UK rail sector. You will lead safety assurance activities across defined workstreams, delivering hazard analyses and safety cases on complex infrastructure programs.

You will collaborate with clients, ISA/AsBo partners and technical specialists to apply first principles engineering and UK/European standards, guiding projects from concept through to placing into service.