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. If you are aiming to progress in your career and embrace a leadership position, this is a great opportunity for you. In this role, you will lead safety engineering and assurance services to a range of rail engineering projects, enhancing safety protocols, risk assessment methodologies, and overall project quality. You will also mentor and guide 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 complex commercially viable projects, collaborating with clients to understand their objectives and desired outcomes.
- Contributing to safety assurance management, safety approvals, and CSM work for major infrastructure projects.
- Providing support to contractors in completing CSM and approvals for station works.
- Leading safety assurance for new rail products, including high-speed points systems, axle counters, and other signalling systems.
- Working on global projects without the necessity of travel.
- Demonstrating flexibility by effectively managing multiple activities and proactively balancing workload across different projects and customers.
- Leading interactive workshops with clients and stakeholders.
Key Competencies and Experience
- Experience in delivering safety engineering and assurance services to rail projects, utilising methods and tools aligned with standards such as EN50126, EN50129, IEC 61508, and/or CSM-RA.
- 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 and proactively prioritise workload.
- Support business development efforts by writing proposals and developing client relationships.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- If you have experience in cyber security, we’d be keen to hear from you.
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 will support you to find your place.
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 that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health, 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, believing in each person's potential. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer working environment.
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 depending on the volume of applications.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer. Please advise the recruitment team if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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