HSEQ Senior Business Partner - Rail

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The Opportunity

The HSEQ Senior Business Partner – Rail will work closely with Rail leadership, project directors, project managers and technical teams to provide strategic and operational HSEQ support across Arup’s UK Rail business, with wider contribution across the EIMEA region.

The role will help strengthen HSEQ performance, support safe and compliant project delivery, and enable consistent application of Arup’s management systems across rail projects, bids, assurance activities and client engagements.

This role is UK based, with a primary focus on the UK Rail business and an expectation to support selected rail-related priorities, programmes and assurance activities across EIMEA.

Strategic Direction:

• Strong understanding of the strategic direction of the UK Rail business, key rail clients and wider EIMEA priorities, and how HSEQ strategy can enhance project delivery, client confidence and operational performance.
• Ability to translate HSEQ and firmwide strategic plans into practical actions for Rail leadership, project teams and supported geographies.
• Broad understanding of the operational risk profile of rail projects and programmes, including design safety, project delivery, client assurance, site interface and works near operational railway environments.

External Influence:

• Build external presence and trusted relationships with rail clients, delivery partners, industry bodies and professional networks relevant to Arup’s Rail work.
• Collaborate with a professional network within and outside Arup, investing time to understand how rail organisations, infrastructure clients and professional communities’ approach HSEQ, assurance and continuous improvement.
• Build client partnerships with key rail clients and partners within the UK and EIMEA region, moving beyond contractual interactions towards industry influence, learning and change.
• Expectation for this role is to develop skills and knowledge across all three disciplines of HSEQ, with particular emphasis on their practical application in rail, infrastructure and high-risk project environments.

Quality Management

• Lead assurance activities across Rail projects, including project reviews, internal audit planning, complex audits, client audit preparation, close-out of findings and analysis of recurring themes across the UK and wider EIMEA Rail portfolio.
• Lead rail teams ahead of and during external audits and client assurance reviews. Review findings, ensure actions are appropriate, tracked and managed to completion, and produce insights and recommended improvements.
• Ensure rail project teams understand quality management system requirements, including individual roles, responsibilities, assurance tasks and client-specific obligations.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

• Promote a culture of care where health and safety is everyone’s responsibility and integrated within everything we do, advising and coaching leadership on role modelling.
• Provide Rail teams with professional health and safety advice for bids, projects, site visits, travel and project delivery interfaces, including works near operational railways and other high-risk environments.
• Promote design safety and designer duty awareness, supporting project teams to integrate Arup’s design safety assurance framework, CDM requirements and key safety concepts into rail designs and project decisions.

Environment and Sustainability

• Support Arup in achieving its sustainability goals by promoting the environmental management system and integrating sustainable concepts into Rail business operations, project delivery, processes and local decision-making.
• Validate and assure Rail project environmental outcomes against contractual, client and legal obligations within the UK and, where relevant, across the wider EIMEA…