Senior Rail Safety Consultant

Overview

In this Senior Rail Safety Consultant role, you will lead safety assurance activities for UK rail projects, spanning traditional and digital/emerging technologies. You’ll apply system safety engineering and risk assessment methods to deliver robust safety cases and management systems. You’ll chair workshops, liaise with clients and multidisciplinary teams, and provide safety input across signalling, infrastructure, rolling stock, and operations. The position emphasizes collaboration, client-facing delivery, and shaping safety outcomes on high-profile programmes with a focus on decarbonisation and resilience.

Pay / Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance & income protection
• Flexible benefits and wellbeing support
• Hybrid and flexible working options

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of rail safety assurance activities, work packages, or small projects to time, cost, and quality
• Perform and manage system safety engineering and risk assessment (HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA)
• Develop and review Safety Cases, Safety Justifications, and Safety Management Systems
• Facilitate and chair safety workshops with clients, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams
• Support projects across the full rail system lifecycle (design, integration, testing, operations)
• Provide safety assurance input for signalling & train control systems (ETCS, ERTMS, CBTC, interlockings)
• Provide safety assurance input for rail infrastructure, communications, rolling stock, and operations
• Interface with Independent Safety Assessors/Assessment Bodies and respond to findings
• Support clients with modern rail challenges (digital railways, decarbonisation, climate resilience)

Key requirements

• Chartered Engineer (or working towards) with a relevant professional institution
• Proven experience in rail safety engineering / safety assurance in the UK
• Strong knowledge of UK rail regulations and standards (ROGS, CSM-RA, NTSNs/TSIs, EN 50126/29/57/16)
• Experience delivering quantitative and qualitative risk assessments
• Strong background in safety-critical, multidisciplinary rail systems
• Experience with ISA/AsBo organisations
• Ability to work across multiple rail domains (signalling, infrastructure, rolling stock, operations)
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

• Stakeholder engagement
• Communication
• Team leadership
• Rail safety engineering
• HazID/HazOP/FMECA/FTA
• Safety Case development

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