Senior Safety Consultant

Overview

Role: Senior Safety Consultant

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1892

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.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver safety engineering and assurance services to engineering projects, applying methods and tools aligned with key standards such as EN50126, EN50129, IEC 61508, and/or CSM-RA.
• Lead the bidding, winning, and successful delivery of commercially viable projects, collaborating with clients to understand their objectives and desired outcomes for each project.
• Contribute to a diverse range of exciting projects, including safety assurance management, safety approvals, and CSM work for major infrastructure projects such as the National Train Control Centre in Dublin, Crewe Hub remodelling, and East Coast Mainline.
• Provide support to contractors in completing CSM and approvals for station works, such as Birmingham New Street, Darlaston and Willenhall, and Coventry Station.
• Engage in safety assurance for new products, including high-speed points systems, axle counters, and other signalling systems.
• Collaborate on safety management systems consulting, such as RM3 auditing and safety strategy development.
• Work on projects worldwide, including opportunities in Australia, the US, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Support business development efforts by writing proposals, developing client relationships, and engaging with industry stakeholders.
• Demonstrate flexibility by effectively managing multiple activities and proactively balancing workload across different projects and customers.
• Thrive on variety, actively seeking out interesting and challenging work to continuously grow and develop professionally.

Key competencies and experience

• Proven experience in delivering safety engineering and assurance services to engineering projects, utilising methods and tools aligned with standards such as EN50126, EN50129, IEC 61508, and/or CSM-RA.
• Demonstrated ability to bid, win, and deliver commercially successful projects, working closely with clients to understand objectives and achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong background in safety assurance management, safety approvals, and CSM work for major infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting contractors in completing CSM and approvals for station works.
• Familiarity with safety assurance for new products, including signalling systems and related technologies.
• Knowledge of safety management systems consulting, such as RM3 auditing and safety strategy development.
• Willingness to work on projects internationally, demonstrating adaptability and cultural awareness.
• Excellent business development skills, including proposal writing and relationship building with clients and industry stakeholders.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and proactively prioritise workload.
• A passion for tackling interesting and challenging work, embracing variety in projects.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

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

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.