Arup
Senior Rail Safety Risk Consultant
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Senior Consultant – Safety Risk and Reliability (Rail Industry)
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Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have shaped our work for over 80 years, guiding us as we shape a better world.
The Opportunity
Arup’s risk and reliability consultants provide expert analysis in:
- Safety engineering
- Safety management
- Reliability for some of the world’s most complex and high-profile infrastructure and transport projects.
You’ll join Arup as a Senior Consultant within our Safety Risk and Reliability team, taking a leading technical role on small to medium rail industry projects—or defined workstreams within larger programmes. The role is predominantly rail-focused, spanning safety assurance across the full rail value chain, including:
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Train control and signalling systems, including:
- Conventional and digital railway applications such as ETCS / ERTMS, CBTC, interlockings, train protection and traffic management systems.
- Rail infrastructure, covering:
- Track, civil structures, stations, depots, power supply, and fixed assets.
- Railway communications systems, such as:
- Safety-related and operational communications (e.g., GSM R, FRMCS, data and control networks).
- Rolling stock, including:
- Vehicle integration, interfaces, modification, and change management.
- Operations, maintenance, and change, including:
- Operational concept development, degraded modes, asset management, and system upgrades.
Projects vary in maturity, complexity, and precedent—some involve well-established technologies and regulatory expectations, while others require first-principles engineering judgment where guidance is evolving or incomplete.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead delivery of defined safety assurance tasks, work packages, or small projects, ensuring outputs meet time, cost, and quality standards.
- Deliver system safety activities, including:
- Hazard identification (HAZID)
- Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP)
- Failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA)
- Fault tree analysis (FTA)
- Chair and facilitate safety workshops with clients, partners, and technical specialists.
- Coordinate and implement technical safety and risk engineering activities, such as:
- Hazard identification and analysis
- Safety case and safety justification development
- Safety management systems
- Support clients introducing new or evolving technologies, addressing emerging challenges such as:
- Decarbonisation and sustainability
- Digitalisation and data-driven railway systems
- Climate resilience and adaptation
- Work with Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo), preparing safety evidence and responding to findings.
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Is This Role Right for You?
We’re looking for a Senior Consultant with:
- Chartered Engineer status, with membership of a relevant professional institution.
- Strong experience leading safety and risk assessment programmes (both quantitative and qualitative) in system safety engineering, specifically within the rail sector.
- Proven understanding of safety assurance activities required for Authorisation for Placing into Service (APiS) for rail systems, subsystems, or assets, including:
- Solid knowledge of UK and European railway legislation (e.g., ROGS, CSM RA, NTSNs, TSIs)
- Application of International Level Standards (EN 50126 / 50716 / 50129)
- Hands-on experience with safety analysis techniques, such as:
- HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA
- Safety case and safety justification development
- Experience across multiple rail value chain elements, including:
- Infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock, communications, or operations.
- Experience working with ISA / AsBo, either as an ISA or in close collaboration with them, including supporting independent safety assessment processes.
- Fluency in Danish, Dutch, and/or German (spoken and written) for European project delivery (non-essential but preferred).
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application and for the duration of employment. Any offer will be subject to satisfaction of immigration status.
For questions or applications not ready to submit, contact Marek Mazurowski (marek.mazurowski@arup.com). Please do not send your CV directly to this email for GDPR compliance.
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What We Offer You
At Arup, we invest in each member’s success, recognising the collective achievements that make us stronger. Our total reward package includes:
- Competitive, fair, and equitable pay
- Discernible career growth, fostering belonging, learning, and impact
- Health and wellbeing benefits, covering private medical insurance, life assurance, accident insurance, and income protection.
- Flexible benefits tailored to your needs, whether personal or family-related.
- Profit Share, allowing members to share in Arup’s collective success.
We are member-owned in trust, granting us unique freedom and personal responsibility to shape our direction while aligning with our purpose.
Different People, Shared Values
Arup is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse culture. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including but not limited to:
- Age (within legal limits)
- Gender identity and expression
- Marital status
- Disability, neurotype, or mental health considerations
- Race and ethnicity
- Faith or belief
- Sexual orientation
- Socioeconomic background
- Pregnancy or family leave status
Our employee networks (e.g., race, gender equity, LGBTQ+, disability inclusion) ensure an environment where everyone feels they belong and can thrive—supported by our values and UN Sustainable Development Goals commitment.
Explore more about life at Arup: www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup
Recruitment Process & Accessibility Our process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. Contact Marek Mazurowski (marek.mazurowski@arup.com) to request adjustments for a smoother application or interview experience.
For general queries:
- www.arup.com/careers/arup-careers-uk-application-process
- Arup will never ask for payment or bank details as part of recruitment.
Arup Preferred Supplier List: We do not acknowledge unsolicited CVs or introductions from agencies not on our list.
Closing Date: July 6th, 2026. Early applications are encouraged—we may close the role earlier based on candidate volume.
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