Safety and Security Consultant

Overview

Role: Safety and Security Consultant

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1893

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. 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.

The role

We are currently looking for a Safety and Security Consultant to join our Rail team. The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering excellent service to customers and someone who has the ambition and capability to develop into a Senior Consultant and future leader of our business.

As a Consultant you will be an essential part of project teams delivering successful projects to customers and developing their commercial and technical capability as part of succession planning for the future.

Key responsibilities

You will be involved in a wide range of exciting projects from consulting to assessment to provide a broad range of experience and develop into a strong multi-skilled consultant such as:

• Safety assurance management, safety approvals and CSM work for major infrastructure projects such as National Train Control Centre in Dublin, Crewe Hub remodelling and East Coast Mainline
• Supporting contractors to complete CSM and approvals for station works such as Birmingham New Street, Darlaston and Willenhall and Coventry Station.
• Safety assurance for new products such as high-speed points system, axle counters and other signalling systems
• Safety management systems consulting such as RM3 auditing and safety strategy development

As a global team you will have the opportunity to work on projects worldwide including Austrailia, US, Canada, Asia and the Middle East.

Key competencies and experience

• You will be a quick learner picking up a variety of different tasks that need to be delivered to a high standard.
• A good communicator supporting business development and sales activity when needed.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• The ability to manage and prioritise workload and assist others in doing so.

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.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.