Key Takeaways
- Join Arup as a Graduate Railway Safety Risk Consultant in the UK.
- Work on safety-critical projects across rail, energy, and infrastructure.
- Requires an Engineering degree (2:1 or higher) with a strong interest in railway safety.
- Applications close on 12 November 2026, early application recommended.
- Start date: 1 September 2027.
About the Role
Our Safety Risk and Reliability team works across a range of safety-critical and asset-intensive industries including rail, energy (nuclear, hydrogen), mission-critical infrastructure (data centres, hospitals), and emerging technology sectors. Our consultants are involved throughout the entire lifecycle—from research & development, input at strategic and planning stages, feasibility and concept design, to operations and maintenance.
The team uses its systems-based expertise to anticipate potential issues, identify inefficiencies, and help clients make informed, risk‑aware decisions that improve the quality, efficiency, safety, security, and environmental protection of their people and critical assets. We play a critical role in ensuring the safety and acceptance of new and modified railway systems on projects across the UK and globally.
We're looking for Graduate Railway Safety Risk and Reliability Consultants to join our team in the UK. You will join an unrivalled community of experts, where everyone is supported in their career path and encouraged to work towards a professional qualification.
You will be responsible for understanding the client’s business, identifying risks systematically, and working closely with them to mitigate and manage those risks through effective controls.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with our clients and project stakeholders
- Be involved in business development, bids, proposals and budget management
- Work confidently in a consulting capacity with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Be highly motivated, eager to learn, and take on new challenges.
About You
We're looking for Graduate Railway Safety and Risk Engineers with curiosity, personal drive and technical know how.
As well as a strong interest and knowledge in railway safety risk, systems assurance, reliability and risk management, we are looking for someone with excellent organisational and communication skills and an understanding of the concepts of multi-disciplinary design, first-principles design, risk-based design and systems thinking. We are looking for someone who is collaborative in their approach but able to work independently to develop engineering solutions that meet the clients’ needs.
Qualifications and Skills
Required:
- Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, System, Reliability, or similar related to the railway industry) degree on track to achieve a 2:1/60% or higher.
- Excellent written, verbal and communication skills.
- A clear understanding of hazards, consequences and risk.
- Interest in railways, railway engineering safety management, system safety management, and interoperability (including the Common Safety Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA), EN 50126, EN 50716, EN 50129).
- Highly motivated, eager to learn, and take on new challenges.
Desirable:
- MSc, PhD or other postgraduate qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, System, Reliability, or similar related to the railway industry).
- Railway industry experience/exposure in relevant areas such as system safety, engineering safety management, risk analysis, and reliability engineering.
- Interest and experience in risk-based design, quantitative assessments, numerical/statistical analysis (such as Monte Carlo Simulation), uncertainty quantification, human behaviours and dynamics, machine-learning techniques, industrial internet of things (IoTs), AI and other new digital tools, technological developments, data analytics and data visualisation.
Eligibility
- Full working rights in the country of application.
- No more than 12 months of full-time experience in a comparable role.
- Recently graduated, or on track to graduate, from your most recent degree, related to your role of choice, before employment starts.
- We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Therefore, you must ensure that you are eligible to work permanently in the UK without our sponsorship.
What We Offer
- A career in which all members can belong, grow and thrive.
- Competitive, fair and equitable pay.
- Benefits that support health and wellbeing.
- A wide range of learning opportunities.
- Profit Share scheme.
- Flexible working approach.
- Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover.
- Access to flexible benefits.
Application Process
Applications are reviewed as they're received, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.
The process includes an online application, psychometric testing, application review, case study, interview and offer stage.
Start Date
1 September 2027