Principal / Senior Technical Safety and RAM Engineer in London

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We're more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Role description: Join our Safety Risk Management (SRM) team as a Principal or Senior Consultant. You will carry out safety and reliability analyses and risk assessment activities across a range of industry sectors and coach junior 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:

• Bachelor's (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
• Use of the Isograph Reliability Workbench or similar software applications
• Experience working across more than one mission‐critical industry, e.g. Rail, Energy, Water and Process Industry (incl. Oil & Gas), Aerospace & Defence
• 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 help 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.