Safety Consultant - Defence

Shape the Safety and Sustainability of the UK’s Most Critical Defence Projects

Join a consultancy at the forefront of defence safety and environmental assurance, where your expertise will directly influence the development and operation of nationally significant capabilities. Working across some of the UK's most technically challenging and high hazard projects, you'll provide trusted advice that enables safe, compliant and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of complex defence systems.

As a Defence Consultant, you will provide independent technical assurance alongside specialist safety and environmental management expertise to clients across the UK defence sector. Your work will support the safe, sustainable and legally compliant delivery of defence capabilities, helping organisations identify, assess and manage risk from concept and design through to operation and disposal.

You will play a key role in developing, reviewing and assuring safety cases, hazard analysis, risk assessments and supporting evidence, using your technical insight to evaluate complex documentation and validate robust safety arguments. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will work closely with clients, project teams, regulators and wider stakeholders, delivering objective, evidence-based recommendations that support confident decision-making in high consequence environments.

The role offers exposure to a diverse portfolio of defence projects spanning land, maritime, air, nuclear and command and control domains. Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to assurance activities, audits and consultancy services while helping to build long-term client relationships and strengthen the organisation's technical capability.

From day one, you will contribute to projects that play a vital role in national defence and security. During your first year, you will develop a detailed understanding of defence projects, client organisations and regulatory frameworks while building expertise in safety case development, risk assessment and assurance delivery. Working as part of a collaborative team delivering client requirements, you will receive ongoing mentoring, guidance and technical support to accelerate your understanding of projects, strengthen your technical capabilities and support your personal and professional development.

As your experience grows, you will take on increasing responsibility, providing technical leadership and becoming a trusted source of advice for clients and project teams. High performers will have a clear pathway towards Senior Consultant level within 24 to 36 months, with opportunities to support complex, strategically significant defence projects that make a tangible impact across the sector.

You will apply a structured and analytical approach to identifying hazards, assessing risks and developing practical risk reduction strategies within complex defence environments. Working across varying stages of the system lifecycle, you will evaluate safety and environmental risks, assess the effectiveness of controls and provide recommendations that demonstrate risks have been reduced to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable.

Your expertise will help ensure safety considerations remain aligned with evolving designs, technologies and operational requirements.

The individual will create and assure compelling, evidence-based safety arguments that stand up to scrutiny from clients, regulators and independent reviewers. Drawing on strong analytical and communication skills, you will develop and maintain key safety artefacts, assess the quality and traceability of evidence, identify weaknesses in safety arguments and enhance assurance outcomes through clear, logical and defensible recommendations.

You will provide objective challenge and independent assurance across a variety of defence projects, helping organisations understand how effectively safety and environmental risks are being managed. Through audits, reviews and…