Senior Safety and Risk Consultant

Overview

As Safety Case Manager, you lead and assure safety activities in highly regulated infrastructure projects, acting as a technical authority across the full lifecycle. You will shape safety arguments, manage case development, and challenge design assumptions to ensure robust, proportionate safety outcomes. You collaborate with cross‑functional teams, suppliers, and regulators to deliver defensible safety cases that enable safe operation of complex projects. This role places you at the forefront of high‑consequence engineering with meaningful impact on delivery and safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and integration of Safety Cases across design, construction, and operation phases
• Assure strength of safety arguments, supporting evidence, and hazard management approaches
• Provide oversight of safety strategies and Safety Case justification plans
• Challenge design and safety assumptions to ensure proportionate, compliant outcomes
• Assure supply chain outputs meet technical, quality, and regulatory expectations
• Interface with customers, stakeholders, delivery partners, and regulators
• Provide clear, authoritative technical advice within complex programme environments

Key requirements

• Proven experience in Safety Case development, management, and assurance within highly regulated industries
• Strong understanding of UK regulatory frameworks including ONR/DNSR experience
• Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted technical authority across multidisciplinary teams
• Confidence to challenge assumptions, interrogate evidence, and influence technical decision-making
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to engage senior leaders, customers, regulators, and specialists
• Experience balancing technical excellence with programme delivery under commercial/operational constraints
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with sound judgement in ambiguous situations
• Proactive, accountable approach with high standards of technical quality and governance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical/non-technical audiences

• stakeholder management
• ability to challenge constructively
• collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• Safety Case development and assurance
• Regulatory engagement and interpretation (ONR/DNSR)
• Risk assessment and hazard management

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