Senior Safety & Risk Engineering Consultant

ARCADIS; Warrington; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Safety and Reliability Engineering Consultant to provide technical leadership across complex, safety‑critical projects and to help clients understand and reduce safety and reliability risks across asset lifecycles.

You will chair HAZID/HAZOP workshops, develop safety cases, RAM plans and reliability models, and support work-winning and team development within a growing SRM group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in engineering, science, mathematics or another relevant numerate discipline.
• Significant experience in a system safety, reliability, risk engineering or safety assurance role within a safety‑critical or mission‑critical industry.
• Strong working knowledge of safety risk assessment, reliability assessment and engineering safety management techniques.
• Experience developing safety risk and reliability models using techniques such as Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Trees and Event Trees.
• Experience chairing or contributing to HAZID, HAZOP or similar structured risk workshops.
• Experience developing safety cases, hazard reports, system definitions, safety plans, RAM plans or other safety and reliability assurance documentation.
• Knowledge of relevant standards, legislation and good practice, which may include the Common Safety Method (CSM), Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (ROGS), and BS EN 50126, BS EN 50128 and BS EN 50129.
• Working knowledge of the DSEAR Approved Code of Practice.
• A proactive, solution‑oriented approach, with the ability to apply experience, judgement and technical knowledge to bespoke risk assessment and assurance challenges.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to clients, project teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Acting as technical lead for safety, reliability and risk assurance activities on complex and mission‑critical projects.
• Providing technical review and quality assurance of project outputs, including reports, specifications, safety cases, RAM documentation and other client deliverables.
• Developing engineering safety arguments and justifications to support design development, design change and operational decision‑making.
• Ensuring project outputs meet client expectations, Arcadis’ requirements, relevant legislation, national standards and recognised codes of practice.
• Chairing and facilitating Hazard Identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) and other structured risk assessment workshops.
• Developing, managing and maintaining project hazard records, hazard logs and associated close‑out evidence.
• Leading and managing others in the completion of DSEAR and Hazardous Area Classification studies.
• Undertaking Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Bow‑Tie assessments, Fault Tree Analysis and Event Tree Analysis.
• Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), consequence analysis and dispersion modelling where required.

Skills

Safety risk assessment

RAM analysis

Hazard identification

Hazard and operability

Technical leadership

Safety case development

Communication

Project governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or numerate discipline

Tools

Isograph / risk modelling software

Job description

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Safety and Reliability Engineering Consultant to provide technical leadership across complex, safety‑critical projects and to help clients understand and reduce safety and reliability risks across asset lifecycles.

You will chair HAZID/HAZOP workshops, develop safety cases, RAM plans and reliability models, and support work-winning and team development within a growing SRM group.