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. With over 34,000 people in more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together. 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 by 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, lead multidisciplinary safety and reliability activities, support work-winning and project delivery, and develop junior consultants within a growing specialist team.

Role Accountabilities
Technical leadership and assurance
Act as technical lead for safety, reliability and risk assurance activities on complex and mission-critical projects. Provide technical review and quality assurance of project outputs including reports, specifications, safety cases, RAM documentation and other client deliverables. Develop engineering safety arguments and justifications to support design development, design change and operational decision-making. Ensure project outputs meet client expectations, Arcadis’ requirements, relevant legislation, national standards and recognised codes of practice.
Safety and risk assessment
Chair and facilitate Hazard Identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) and other structured risk assessment workshops. Develop, manage and maintain project hazard records, hazard logs and associated close-out evidence. Lead and manage others in the completion of DSEAR and Hazardous Area Classification studies. Undertake Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Bow-Tie assessments, Fault Tree Analysis and Event Tree Analysis. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), consequence analysis and dispersion modelling where required.
Reliability, availability and maintainability
Develop RAM plans, RAM analyses and reliability assurance documentation to support project and asset lifecycle objectives. Undertake reliability assessments including the development and application of Reliability Block Diagrams and associated reliability models. Support clients in identifying reliability risks, performance constraints and opportunities to improve asset availability and maintainability.
Client, commercial and team development
Build trusted relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders through clear technical advice and high-quality delivery. Support bids, proposals, fee estimates and work-winning activities for safety, risk and reliability services. Coach and mentor junior consultants, review their work and contribute to the continued development of the team’s technical capability.

Experience
- Significant experience in system safety, reliability, risk engineering or safety assurance roles 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, legislation and good practice including Common Safety Method (CSM), Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (ROGS), BS EN 50126, BS EN 50128 and BS EN 50129.
- Working knowledge of the DSEAR Approved Code of Practice.
- Experience in delivering full compliance with CSM-REA for Rail infrastructure projects is desirable.
- Experience applying Hazardous Area Classification standards and guidance (e.g. EI15 and IEC60079) is advantageous.
- Ability to read electrical schematic block diagrams and engineering drawings is beneficial.
- Experience using Isograph Reliability Workbench or similar modelling software is desirable.
- Experience delivering consequence analysis and/or dispersion modelling is a plus.

About you
A proactive, solution-oriented professional with the ability to apply experience, judgement and technical knowledge to bespoke risk assessment and assurance challenges. Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to clients, project teams and stakeholders. Able to build trusted relationships and lead multidisciplinary teams effectively.

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