Associate – Rail System Safety (Risk & Assurance)

Associate - Rail System Safety (Risk & Assurance) focuses on plan work and resource needs over a year horizon for your project/team area, aligning with arup strategy and business plans.

Confirmed role details

• Plan work and resource needs over a year horizon for your project/team area, aligning with Arup strategy and business plans.
• Identify business development opportunities and contribute to (or lead) proposals, including making key inputs to bid strategy and no‑bid/bid decisions where appropriate.
• Develop a team or function, setting performance expectations, creating clarity on goals and maintaining a culture of trust, openness and recognition.
• Provide mentoring and coaching, creating development opportunities through stretching assignments and building specialist skills through recruitment and development.

Candidate fit

• Holds a degree in engineering, mathematics, science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Has a strong grasp of UK and European rail safety assurance frameworks and standards, including ROGS, CSM‑RA, TSIs/NTSNs, and EN 50126/50716/50129.
• Ability to work professionally in Danish, Dutch and/or German (spoken and/or written) to support European project delivery would be an advantage.

Additional role context

• Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.
• Digitalisation and data driven railway systems, including automation, AI enabled tools and advanced decision support systems‑driven railway systems‑enabled tools and advanced decis.
• Lead the delivery of rail safety assurance and risk work on projects or major work packages, setting clear direction, outcomes, priorities and quality expectations.