Role: Principal Safety Consultant (Safety Assurance & Certification)
Location: London, Bristol, Derby (Hybrid/Flexible)
Role ID: 2024-2485
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. 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 looking for a Principal Safety Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will lead safety engineering and assurance services to a range of rail engineering projects. Your expertise will contribute to the enhancement of safety protocols, risk assessment methodologies, and overall project quality. This role offers you the chance to further your technical knowledge in rail safety and to mentor junior consultants, sharing your experience to foster their growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading complex rail 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.
- Leading the bidding, winning, and successful delivery of commercially viable projects, collaborating with clients to understand their objectives.
- Contributing to exciting projects, including safety assurance management and CSM work for major infrastructure projects.
- Providing support to contractors in completing CSM and approvals for station works.
- Leading in safety assurance for new rail products, including high-speed points systems and signalling systems.
- Working on global projects spanning Australia, the US, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East from the UK.
- Managing multiple activities and proactively balancing workload across different projects.
- Leading interactive workshops with clients and stakeholders.
Key Competencies and Experience
- Experience in delivering safety engineering and assurance services to rail projects.
- Background in risk management, systems engineering, and/or safety engineering.
- Prior experience in major rail infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
- Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities.
- Support business development by writing proposals and developing client relationships.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Working here
You will be welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, creating a culture of inclusion. We encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through your projects.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether from home, the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Benefits
We value you and your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that, including support for your physical and mental health, 25 days' annual leave, and a competitive pension scheme.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, recognising each person's potential. We value diversity, which drives innovation and allows us to offer our clients the best consultancy service.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that timing can vary based on application volume.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer. Please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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