Safety Engineering Consultants

Overview

Junior/Senior/Principal Safety Consultant

Role:
Permanent

Location:

London, Manchester, Derby, Birmingham, Toronto and Vancouver

CPC Systems is the technical consultancy arm of CPC, specialising in complex systems engineering projects across mission‑critical industries including Rail, Energy, Nuclear and Data Centres. We embrace the power of technology to support our clients to deliver world class performance from their infrastructure and systems. Whether it is increasing capacity, improving reliability, delivering safety critical system upgrades, or driving efficiency.

CPC Project Services completed its transition to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) in March 2024, becoming a 100% employee-owned company.

The CPC Systems team is on the lookout for talented Safety Consultants looking for the next step in their safety and assurance consulting careers. We are recruiting across several roles and levels to join our ever-expanding team. You’ll be leading or supporting the delivery of safety activities in various sectors, across a range of exciting project opportunities, as well as being a key part of our developing approach to safety analysis, development of new data driven tools using performance data to validate safety assessments and much more.

• Degree in Engineering, Science or similar.
• Experience in delivering safety engineering and assurance services, using methods and tools aligned with standards such as EN50126, EN50129, IEC 61508, IEC 61511 and CSM-RA or CMREA.
• Experience in delivering safe integration, using methods and tools aligned with TSIs or NTSNs.
• Strong background in safety assurance management, safety approvals, and safety management activities for major infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with safety assurance for existing and new products, including rail signalling systems & rolling stock, complex control systems, process systems, infrastructure upgrade, etc.
• Knowledge of safety management systems consulting, such as RM3 auditing and safety strategy development.
• Member of a professional institution and chartered (or Professional Engineer status in Canada) or desire to work towards this qualification.
• Business development skills, including proposal writing and relationship building with clients and industry stakeholders, collaborating with clients to understand their objectives and desired outcomes for each project.
• Bidding, winning, and successful delivery of commercially viable projects, collaborating with clients to understand their objectives and desired outcomes for each project.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and proactively prioritise workload.
• A passion for tackling interesting and challenging work, embracing variety in projects.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Awareness of AI and emerging technology applications, with the ability to leverage modern tools and data‑driven approaches to enhance safety analysis and assurance activities will be a plus.

CPC - Big enough to deliver but small enough to care

In addition to a competitive salary, CPC Project Services Ltd provides comprehensive benefits including private pension, private healthcare, holidays, assistance with private professional membership subscriptions, training and development, personal performance based bonus and annual salary review.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match for this position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organisation.

We recognise and value the diversity of our people and are committed to developing working practices which will allow every person to contribute to our business and achieve their career aspirations.

APM SME of the Year 2023 - Association for Project Management

2023 Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (100 staff or over) - Building Awards, 2023

Polite notice to recruitment agencies - we do not require any external support at this time. Please note, we do not accept speculative CV's, and they will not be considered as a valid 'introduction'.