Senior Rail Safety Risk Consultant in Nottingham

The Opportunity Arup’s risk and reliability consultants provide risk analysis, reliability, safety engineering and safety management on some of the most complex and high profile infrastructure and transport projects globally. You will join Arup as a Senior Consultant within our Safety Risk and Reliability team. You will take a leading technical role on small to medium sized projects, or on defined workstreams within larger programmes. The role will be predominantly focused on the rail industry, supporting safety assurance across the full rail value chain, including:

• Train control and signalling systems, including conventional and digital railway applications such as ETCS / ERTMS, CBTC, interlockings, train protection and traffic management systems.
• Rail infrastructure, including track, civil structures, stations, depots, power supply and associated fixed assets.
• Railway communications systems, including safety related and operational communications (e.g. GSM R, FRMCS, data and control networks).
• Rolling stock, including vehicle integration, interfaces, modification and change.
• Operations, maintenance and change, including operational concept development, degraded modes, asset management and system upgrades.

Projects supported by this role vary in their maturity, complexity and level of precedent. Some will involve well established technologies, operating models and regulatory expectations, while others will require careful interpretation of standards and the application of first principles engineering judgement where guidance is evolving or incomplete.

In this role you will:

• Lead delivery of defined safety assurance tasks, work packages or small projects, managing outputs to time, cost and quality.
• Deliver system safety activities including hazard identification, analysis and risk assessment (e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA).
• Chair and facilitate safety workshops with clients, partners and technical specialists.
• Be responsible for coordinating and implementing technical safety and risk engineering activities, including hazard identification and analysis, safety case and safety justification development, and safety management systems, supporting risk reduction and assurance in accordance with recognised industry standards, regulatory expectations and sound engineering principles.
• Support clients as they introduce new or evolving technologies and respond to emerging strategic challenges, alongside more traditional rail programmes. These may include Decarbonisation and sustainability, Digitalisation and data driven railway systems, Climate resilience and adaptation.
• Work with Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo), supporting preparation of safety evidence and responses to findings.

Is this role right for you?

• Is a Chartered Engineer with membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Has strong experience leading safety and risk assessment programmes (qualitative and quantitative) and experience in system safety engineering within the rail sector, applied to complex, multi-disciplinary and safety-critical systems.
• Has a proven understanding of safety assurance activities required to achieve Authorisation for Placing into Service for rail systems, subsystems or assets and solid understanding and experience of applying relevant UK and European railway legislation and standards, including ROGS, CSM RA, NTSNs, TSIs, and EN 50126 / 50716 / 50129.
• Has experience applying safety analysis techniques such as HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA, and developing safety cases and safety justifications.
• Has worked across multiple elements of the rail value chain (e.g. infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock, communications or operations).
• Has experience working as, or working closely with, Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo), including supporting independent safety assessment and assurance processes.
• Is fluent in Danish, Dutch and/or German (spoken and/or written) to support European project delivery (non-essential requirement).

What we offer you

We provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. In addition to competitive, fair, and equitable pay, we offer a career that supports health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities, and many possibilities to have an impact through the work you do. We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover, and access to flexible benefits to support the wellbeing of employees and their families.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you are pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas. We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. To support you throughout the application or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at Marek Mazurowski (marek.mazurowski@arup.com).

Closing date: 6th May 2026. We may close the role earlier than the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications, so please ensure you apply early.