Senior Safety Consultant

Overview

Position Title:  Senior Safety Consultant

Status:              Permanent

Company:         Ricardo Rail UK

Location:           Any UK Ricardo Office

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.

Due to continued growth– currently in infrastructure change projects in particular – Ricardo Rail are looking to strengthen their team to support the delivery of existing and new projects.

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Safety Consultant to work on a wide range of safety engineering projects as part of the Safety, Security and Human Factors Team. Ideally you will have 10+ years’ experience either in safety engineering, risk management or systems engineering.

You will be part of our rapidly growing and dynamic team of experienced safety engineers delivering high quality work to clients, sometimes to demanding timescales. If you are enthusiastic, curious, self-motivated and willing to work hard this is the role for you!

Job Description

As a Senior safety consultant you will be responsible for leading safety engineering projects for clients in compliance with relevant international standards such EN50126, EN50129 or IEC 61508 and/or CSM-RA.

You will meet and develop relationships with key engineering leaders and rail decision makers as well as enhancing your own technical capabilities. In a client facing role, you will be expected to combine sound engineering knowledge and judgement, with excellent communication skills, to deliver high-quality technical service to clients.

You will also lead proposals with novel solutions to technically challenging client needs, drawing upon your formal engineering training and your experience to-date.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Safety Consultant  within a consultancy environment, your key responsibilities relate to bidding, winning and delivering commercially successful projects. In doing so, you will:

• Lead safety engineering activities for a wide range of signalling, infrastructure and rolling stock projects to ensure compliance with the CSM RA, EN5016/8/9 and relevant standards.
• Facilitate HAZOP / HAZID workshops and being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up the workshops.
• Manage risk assessments for specific discipline areas, being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up risk workshops.
• Working with clients to understand their objectives and desired outcomes for each project.
• Support business development and write proposals; liaising with clients to secure work. In doing so, identify potential risks, devise methodologies, specify clear acceptance criteria, and generate resource and cost estimates.
• Ensure overall client satisfaction targets are met throughout the project lifecycle
• Proactive liaise with clients, regulatory bodies and other project stakeholders.

Technical expertise & skills required:

We consider it essential that you can demonstrate:

Knowledge of:

• the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM RA) regulation, EN50126/8/9, or equivalent from another industry.
• the application of engineering safety management.
• hazard identification and analysis techniques and management of hazards through hazard records / hazard logs.
• Systems and safety engineering experience - ability to decompose a system context from project documentation, read and understand standards and understand key element/interfaces.
• Experience of working in major rail infrastructure upgrade projects, ideally within the UK.
• Project management skills to deliver on a range of projects to quality, time and budget
• Ability to write well structured, high quality reports with clear objectives and conclusions, including an ability to tailor your style to meet client requirements and deliver high quality reports with clear objectives and conclusions.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, and present technical solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a consultancy environment including the need for flexibility and client-satisfaction. This includes understanding client needs and issues, developing requirements and solutions, managing client expectations and delivering high quality outputs. Your experience does not need to be within a consultancy environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including the capability to engage positively with clients and colleagues as part of a project team, and to influence decision-makers. This includes the ability to present technical information to customers in clear, complete, concise and unambiguous terms.

Qualifications required:

Degree or equivalent technical qualification, with experience in a relevant engineering discipline.

Ricardo Rail

Ricardo Group is a global strategic engineering and environmental consultancy that specialises in the transport, energy and scarce resources sectors. We are members of a community of around 2,900 engineers, consultants and scientists providing strategic, technical and niche manufacturing services for a range of sectors including passenger car, motorsport, rail, clean energy and power generation.

Through our multi-industry knowledge and deep technical expertise, we are uniquely positioned to handle our clients’ toughest strategic and operational challenges. In addition to our core technical engineering consultancy services, we support our clients with strategy development, cost reduction, safety management, regulatory compliance and environmental impact assessments.

As part of the wider Ricardo family, the Rail Division provides world-class expertise in critical and complex railway systems. We operate across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia, employing over 600 consultants working on rolling stock, infrastructure and independent assurance projects. Together we support a client portfolio that ranges from some of the world’s largest rail administrations to niche component suppliers.

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

Wellbeing and work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's 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. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement

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 and ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits

• Great working environment with ability to blend working in office/ at home
• 25 days holiday plus usual bank holidays,
• Buy and sell 5 days holiday,
• Company Pension
• Life Cover
• Permanent Disability Insurance
• Access to Perkbox
• Employee Assistance programme
• Access to private GP services
• LinkedIn Learning
• Ability to purchase flexible benefits such as dental insurance, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, medical cash plan, computer lease scheme, lease car etc.

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.