Senior Safety and Risk Consultant in Glasgow

Assystem's Safety & Risk business supports some of the UK's most complex infrastructure programmes across nuclear, defence and critical national infrastructure. We provide independent technical authority combining engineering insight, regulatory understanding and delivery pragmatism to ensure safety is demonstrably achieved and maintained across the full lifecycle. We are expanding our support across major infrastructure programmes and are seeking a Safety Case Manager to lead and assure safety activities within complex, highly regulated environments. You will operate as a technical authority and Intelligent Customer, setting expectations, assuring technical quality, and influencing key safety decisions across the full project lifecycle. The role requires strong technical judgement, the ability to challenge constructively, and confidence working across multidisciplinary teams. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of high-consequence engineering, where safety is critical to successful delivery and where your input will directly shape how complex infrastructure is designed, justified and brought into operation.

Safety Case Leadership & Assurance

• Lead the development and integration of Safety Cases across design, construction, and operational phases.
• Assure the strength of safety arguments, supporting evidence, and hazard management approaches.
• Provide oversight of safety strategies and Safety Case justification plans.

Intelligent Customer Function

• Challenge design and safety assumptions to ensure proportionate, compliant, and defensible outcomes.
• Assure supply chain outputs meet technical, quality, and regulatory expectations.

Stakeholder & Programme Engagement

• Interface effectively with customers, stakeholders, delivery partners, and regulators.
• Provide clear, authoritative technical advice within complex programme environments.