Principal / Senior Technical Safety and RAM Engineer

Arcadis; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering firm in London is seeking a Principal / Senior Technical Safety and RAM Engineer to lead safety and reliability projects. You will ensure high-quality safety analyses across various sectors, engage in HAZID/HAZOP workshops, and develop comprehensive safety documentation. Ideal candidates possess a degree in engineering and experience within safety-critical industries. Join to make a lasting impact on sustainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors (or higher) Degree in Engineering, Science or Maths subject.
• Experience in safety-critical industries such as Energy, Rail, Nuclear.
• Ability to develop safety risk and reliability models.

Responsibilities

• Lead on technical safety and reliability projects.
• Conduct HAZID and HAZOP workshops.
• Prepare safety assurance documentation and assessments.

Skills

Engineering safety management

Risk assessment

Reliability modelling

Quantitative Risk Analysis

HAZIDs/HAZOPs

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science or Maths

Tools

Isograph Reliability Workbench

Job description

Principal / Senior Technical Safety and RAM Engineer

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

Join our Safety Risk Management (SRM) team as a Principal or Senior Consultant and we’ll make sure you get the experience, challenges, and support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go. We’ve been applying our expertise to projects around the world for over a century. Join us and you’ll be part of a team looking forward, working collaboratively and drawing on different strengths to ensure tomorrow’s journeys are reliable and safe. Whilst our projects will be predominantly in the railway transportation sector, you will also have the opportunity to apply your capabilities to creating innovative solutions in other transport, energy, industrial and manufacturing sectors. As part of your role, you will carry out safety and reliability analyses and risk assessment activities across a range of industry sectors and coach junior members of staff.

Role accountabilities

• Operating as the technical safety and/or reliability assurance technical lead on a variety of mission‑critical projects
• Chairing Hazard Identification (HAZID) and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) workshops
• Review and quality‑assure SRM project outputs (e.g. documentation, reports, specifications) to ensure that they meet or exceed client expectations and Arcadis requirements and comply with national standards and codes of practice
• Developing and managing project hazard records / logs
• Undertaking Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Bow‑tie assessments
• Fault Tree Analysis / Event Tree Analysis
• Developing Engineering Safety arguments and justifications in support of design changes
• Undertaking Reliability Assessments (typically using Reliability Block Diagrams)
• Preparing/contributing to safety assurance documentation: Safety Plans, Safety Cases, Hazard Reports, System Definitions
• Preparing/contributing to safety assurance documentation: Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Plans, RAM Analyses and other reliability assurance documentation
• Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), consequence analysis and/or dispersion modelling

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors (or higher) Degree in Engineering, Science or Maths subject (or similar numerate discipline)
• Experienced as a Principal or Senior System Safety and Reliability / Risk Engineer within safety‑critical industries, such as: Energy, Rail, Water Supply, Aviation, Nuclear, Automotive.
• Experience of working within the water supply or renewable energy sectors would be advantageous.
• Working knowledge and able to develop safety risk and reliability models using Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Trees and Event Trees
• Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) using a variety of techniques
• Undertake HAZIDs/ HAZOPs and develop Safety Cases
• Knowledge of Engineering Safety Management and experience of applying the Common Safety Method (CSM), Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (ROGS) and BS EN50126, 50128 and 50129 for RAM
• Must be proactive, solution orientated and be able to utilise experience, knowledge and skills to carry out bespoke risk assessments
• Desired: Ability to read electrical schematic block diagrams and engineering drawings
• Desired: Use of the Isograph Reliability Workbench or similar software applications
• Desired: Experience of working across more than one mission‑critical industry, e.g. Rail, Energy, Water and Process Industry (incl. Oil & Gas), Aerospace & Defence.
• Desired: Experience delivering consequence analysis and/or dispersion modelling

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Other

Industries

Professional Services