Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. Join our Safety Risk Management (SRM) team as a Principal Safety and Reliability Engineering Consultant, providing technical leadership across complex, safety-critical and mission-critical projects. You will help clients understand, manage and reduce safety and reliability risks across the full asset lifecycle, applying structured safety assurance, RAM, risk assessment and systems engineering techniques. Our expertise spans over a century and multiple sectors including railway, transportation, energy, water, industrial, manufacturing and other infrastructure environments.

In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, lead multidisciplinary safety and reliability activities, support work-winning and project delivery, and help develop the capability of junior consultants within a growing specialist team. You will provide technical leadership and assurance, chair and facilitate risk assessment workshops, develop safety arguments and documentation, and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and standards. You will also contribute to client relationships, commercial activities, and team development, fostering a collaborative and forward-looking environment.

Experience
- Significant experience in system safety, reliability, risk engineering or safety assurance within safety-critical or mission-critical industries such as rail, energy, water, aviation, nuclear, automotive, aerospace, defence or process industries.
- Strong working knowledge of safety risk assessment, reliability assessment and engineering safety management techniques.
- Experience developing safety risk and reliability models using Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Trees and Event Trees.
- Experience chairing or contributing to HAZID, HAZOP or similar structured risk workshops.
- Experience developing safety cases, hazard reports, system definitions, safety plans, RAM plans or other safety and reliability assurance documentation.
- Knowledge of relevant standards and legislation including Common Safety Method (CSM), Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (ROGS), BS EN 50126, BS EN 50128, BS EN 50129 and DSEAR Approved Code of Practice.
- Experience in quantitative risk analysis, consequence analysis and dispersion modelling is desirable.

About you
- A proactive, solution-oriented approach with strong judgement and technical knowledge.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to clients, project teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and support commercial and team development activities.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, science, mathematics or another relevant numerate discipline.

Desirable
- Experience working within water supply, renewable energy or wider infrastructure sectors.
- Experience delivering full compliance with CSM-REA for Rail infrastructure projects.
- Experience across multiple mission-critical industries.
- Knowledge of Hazardous Area Classification standards (e.g. EI15 and IEC60079).
- Ability to read electrical schematic block diagrams and engineering drawings.
- Experience using Isograph Reliability Workbench or similar software.
- Experience delivering consequence analysis and/or dispersion modelling.