Senior Safety and Risk Consultant

Overview

In this role you lead safety-case activities within highly regulated infrastructure programs, acting as a technical authority to ensure robust safety justifications. You will guide safety case development across design, construction and operation, interfacing with customers, regulators and multidisciplinary teams. The role focuses on challenging assumptions, assuring evidence quality, and shaping safety outcomes to enable safe operation of complex facilities. This is an opportunity to influence critical decisions in nuclear, defence and national infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and integration of Safety Cases across design, construction, and operational phases
• Assure strength of safety arguments, supporting evidence, and hazard management approaches
• Provide oversight of safety strategies and Safety Case justification plans
• Intelligent Customer function: challenge design and safety assumptions to ensure proportionate, compliant, and defensible outcomes; assure supply chain outputs meet technical, quality, and regulatory expectations
• Interface with customers, stakeholders, delivery partners, and regulators; provide clear, authoritative technical advice
• Communicate complex technical information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Key requirements

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

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing and negotiation
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Safety Case development and assurance
• Regulatory frameworks for nuclear and defence sectors (ONR/DNSR)
• Hazard analysis and risk assessment

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