Graduate Rail Safety Risk Consultant

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Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines. We guide, plan and design the future of the built environment. Globally, each year we recruit hundreds of graduates and students who help us see things differently and solve the most complex challenges facing our clients, climate and communities.

Our Safety Risk and Reliability team works across a range of safety-critical and asset-intensive industries including rail, energy (nuclear, hydrogen), mission-critical infrastructure (data centres, hospitals), and emerging technology sectors. Our consultants are involved throughout the entire lifecycle—from research & development, input at strategic and planning stages, feasibility and concept design, to operations and maintenance.

The team uses its systems-based expertise to anticipate potential issues, identify inefficiencies, and help clients make informed, risk‑aware decisions that improve the quality, efficiency, safety, security, and environmental protection of their people and critical assets. We play a critical role in ensuring the safety and acceptance of new and modified railway systems on projects across the UK and globally.

We're looking for Graduate Railway Safety Risk and Reliability Consultants to join our team in the UK. You will join an unrivalled community of experts, where everyone is supported in their career path and encouraged to work towards a professional qualification.

You will be responsible for understanding the client’s business, identifying risks systematically, and working closely with them to mitigate and manage those risks through effective controls.

• Work closely with our clients and project stakeholders
• Be involved in business development, bids, proposals and budget management
• Work confidently in a consulting capacity with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Be highly motivated, eager to learn, and take on new challenges.

For this opportunity, we are seeking the following qualifications, skills and attributes:

We're looking for Graduate Railway Safety and Risk Engineers with curiosity, personal drive and technical know how.

As well as a strong interest and knowledge in railway safety risk, systems assurance, reliability and risk management, we are looking for someone with excellent organisational and communication skills and an understanding of the concepts of multi-disciplinary design, first-principles design, risk-based design and systems thinking. We are looking for someone who is collaborative in their approach but able to work independently to develop engineering solutions that meet the clients’ needs.

The following qualifications, attributes and skills are sought:

• Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, System, Reliability, or similar related to the railway industry) degree on track to achieve a 2:1/60% or higher.
• Excellent written, verbal and communication skills.
• A clear understanding of hazards, consequences and risk.
• Interest in railways, railway engineering safety management, system safety management, and interoperability (including the Common Safety Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA), EN 50126, EN 50716, EN 50129).
• Highly motivated, eager to learn, and take on new challenges.

• MSc, PhD or other postgraduate qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, System, Reliability, or similar related to the railway industry).
• Railway industry…