Principal Technical Safety and PRAM Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Join our Safety Risk Management (SRM) team as a Principal Safety and Reliability Engineering Consultant, where you will provide technical leadership across complex, safety-critical and mission-critical projects. You will help clients understand, manage and reduce safety and reliability risks across the full asset lifecycle, applying structured safety assurance, RAM, risk assessment and systems engineering techniques.

We have been applying our expertise to projects around the world for over a century. Join us and you will be part of a forward-looking, collaborative team that draws on diverse technical strengths to help ensure tomorrow’s journeys, assets and systems are safe, reliable and resilient. While many of our projects are in the railway and transportation sector, you will also have opportunities to apply your expertise across energy, water, industrial, manufacturing and other infrastructure environments.

In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, lead multidisciplinary safety and reliability activities, support work-winning and project delivery, and help develop the capability of junior consultants within a growing specialist team.

• Acting as technical lead for safety, reliability and risk assurance activities on complex and mission‑critical projects.
• Providing technical review and quality assurance of project outputs, including reports, specifications, safety cases, RAM documentation and other client deliverables.
• Developing engineering safety arguments and justifications to support design development, design change and operational decision‑making.
• Ensuring project outputs meet client expectations, Arcadis’ requirements, relevant legislation, national standards and recognised codes of practice.

• Chairing and facilitating Hazard Identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) and other structured risk assessment workshops.
• Developing, managing and maintaining project hazard records, hazard logs and associated close‑out evidence.
• Leading and managing others in the completion of DSEAR and Hazardous Area Classification studies.
• Undertaking Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Bow‑Tie assessments, Fault Tree Analysis and Event Tree Analysis.
• Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), consequence analysis and dispersion modelling where required.

• Developing RAM plans, RAM analyses and reliability assurance documentation to support project and asset lifecycle objectives.
• Undertaking reliability assessments, including the development and application of Reliability Block Diagrams and associated reliability models.
• Supporting clients in identifying reliability risks, performance constraints and opportunities to improve asset availability and maintainability.

• Building trusted relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders through clear technical advice and high‑quality delivery.
• Supporting bids, proposals, fee estimates and work‑winning activities for safety, risk and reliability services.
• Coaching and mentoring junior consultants, reviewing their work and contributing to the continued development of the team’s technical capability.

• Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in engineering, science, mathematics or another relevant numerate discipline.
• Significant experience in a system safety, reliability, risk engineering or safety assurance role within a safety‑critical or mission‑critical industry, such as rail, energy, water, aviation, nuclear, automotive, aerospace, defence or process industries.
• Strong working knowledge of safety risk assessment,…