Senior Safety & Risk Consultant

Overview

In this Safety Case Manager role, you act as a trusted technical authority to lead and assure safety activities across design, construction and operation within high-regulated infrastructure programmes. You will shape safety arguments, evidence, and hazard management, while guiding cross-functional teams to robust safety outcomes. You’ll influence key safety decisions across the full lifecycle and interact with stakeholders and regulators to ensure compliant, defensible safety cases. This position offers the chance to work at the forefront of high-consequence engineering where safety drives successful delivery and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and integration of Safety Cases across design, construction and operational phases
• Assure the strength of safety arguments, evidence and hazard management approaches
• Provide oversight of safety strategies and justification plans
• Intelligent Customer function: challenge design and safety assumptions to ensure proportionate, compliant outcomes
• Assure supply chain outputs meet technical and regulatory expectations
• Stakeholder & programme engagement: interface with stakeholders, delivery partners and regulators, provide clear, authoritative advice in complex environments

Key requirements

• Strong track record in Safety Case development and assurance
• Experience in complex, highly regulated defence or nuclear environments
• Ability to challenge assumptions, interrogate evidence and guide multidisciplinary teams
• Senior or Principal level experience (Safety Case Manager, Principal/Senior Engineer or Intelligent Customer)
• Experience within UK regulatory frameworks such as ONR or DNSR
• Ownership mindset, high standards for technical quality, ability to navigate ambiguity and influence senior stakeholders

• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Constructive challenge and collaboration across disciplines
• Leadership and decision-making under ambiguity
• Safety Case development
• Safety assurance and hazard management
• Regulatory understanding (ONR/DNSR)

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