Join Us in Shaping the Future of Process Safety Excellence
We are seeking a motivated and ambitious Senior Process Safety Consultant to join our growing team at Tetra Tech RPS. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a diverse portfolio of projects across sectors including nuclear, chemical and pharmaceutical, oil & gas, clean energy (hydrogen, CCS, EfW), utilities (water, power and gas networks), aerospace, manufacturing and defence. The role offers the individual to deliver high-quality consultancy services that promote safe, compliant, and sustainable environments.
Purpose & Scope of the Role
The opportunity offers the individual to deliver expert process safety consultancy, helping clients reduce risks to ALARP and achieve compliance across complex operational environments. You will work on a diverse range of services, including hazard study facilitation (HAZID and HAZOP), DSEAR reviews, functional safety assessments, consequence modelling, quantitative risk assessment (QRA), machinery safety, and COMAH compliance. You will take ownership of projects from bid stage through to closeout, conducting site surveys, leading workshops, and preparing detailed technical reports supported by robust calculations. A key part of the role involves producing clear, accurate documentation and facilitating hazard studies to identify risks and evaluate mitigation measures. This is a position for professionals who thrive on technical challenge and responsibility, delivering high-quality solutions that make a measurable impact on safety performance.
Your Impact in This Position
In your first year, you will gain hands-on experience across a variety of projects, such as toxic dispersion modelling, DSEAR reviews, and hazard study facilitation. You will contribute to project delivery, integrate into a collaborative team and mentor graduates and junior colleagues. This period will allow you to develop technical expertise while building strong relationships with clients and peers. There will be opportunities to lead larger projects and assume line management duties.
By your second year, you will confidently mentor junior team members and manage your own pipeline of work across multiple industries. You will have opportunities to lead projects, oversee delivery teams and ensure high standards of quality and client satisfaction, while contributing to team growth and achieving strategic targets.
Your Toolkit for Success at Tetra Tech RPS
At Tetra Tech RPS we recruit using core capabilities - the toolkit of essential skills, experience, competencies, and responsibilities required to perform the role effectively. As we strive to find the best fit for this position, we are seeking individuals that meet a benchmark level of expertise.
But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as the 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.
Technical Expertise & Solution Delivery
The role is focused on delivering high-quality technical reports that demonstrate a clear understanding of client requirements and translate them into effective process safety solutions. This may include conducting site visits, workshops, supporting calculations and the preparation of detailed documentation that informs critical safety decisions. The ability to challenge existing approaches and apply technical judgement is essential. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will provide expert guidance on regulatory compliance and best practice across all areas of process safety, ensuring clients meet relevant standards and operate safely within high-hazard environments.
Financial management
A commercially focused approach is central to this role, requiring expertise in preparing accurate cost proposals, monitoring project expenditure against progress and ensuring profitability targets are achieved to support wider financial objectives. The successful individual will also manage project cash flow and invoicing throughout the lifecycle, maintaining precise financial tracking and timely reporting.
Business Development
Driving business growth is a key aspect of this role, requiring experience in writing compelling proposals and securing follow-on work from existing clients. You will identify new opportunities through regular engagement, understand evolving client needs and bid for additional work that adds measurable value. Building strong relationships and proactively demonstrating how our services can continue to support client objectives is fundamental to success.
Leadership and Mentoring
The role offers the opportunity to shape the next generation of technical specialists by mentoring and supporting junior team members through hands-on experience and expert guidance. You will accompany them on site visits, review and refine their work, provide feedback and approve technical reports, ensuring the highest standards across all deliverables. Working closely with our nuclear safety, human factors, and fire engineering teams, you will play a pivotal role in building capability, fostering collaboration and driving excellence in multidisciplinary projects.
Driving Technical Excellence
In this role it offers the opportunity to shape and advance industry standards in process safety, positioning you as a recognised thought leader. You will author high-quality guidance documents and technical papers, contribute to best practice frameworks and influence the wider sector through active engagement in conferences, technical forums and collaborative initiatives. By championing innovation and continuous improvement, you will set benchmarks for regulatory compliance and operational safety, ensuring clients and the industry adopt robust, future-focused solutions that drive excellence.
MANDATORY Training & Qualification requirements
A degree in either Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control/ Electrical Engineering.
BENEFICIAL Training, Qualifications, or Equivalent Work Experience
Working towards Chartered Engineer status.
TUV-certified Functional Safety Engineer.
Experience in process safety techniques: HAZID, HAZOP, QRA, ALARP, CBA, OBRA, CFD, LOPA, PUWER.
Familiar with UK regulations and standards: DSEAR, offshore safety case regulations, nuclear safety case regulations, COMAH, PUWER.
Solid understanding of regulatory compliance and process safety best practices.
Proven ability to shape industry standards through guidance documents, technical papers and authoritative publications.
Established track record of thought leadership, including conference presentations and contributions to professional forums.
Open to candidates from diverse industry backgrounds with relevant experience.
Working Environment
This role follows a hybrid working model, typically involving 2-3 days per week at either a Tetra Tech RPS office or on client sites, with the remaining days worked remotely. Projects may require travel across the UK and in some instances internationally. To support effective collaboration with the team, candidates should be based within approximately one hour's travel time from the Warrington office.
The team are based at Birchwood Park, offering a modern workspace with complimentary on-site parking and access to a fully equipped gym. We place a strong emphasis on employee wellbeing. The team enjoy a vibrant community atmosphere, with regular social activities such as walking trips, five-a-side football, Macmillan coffee mornings and a monthly photo competition.
Rewarding Your Expertise
At Tetra Tech RPS Consulting, we aim to offer a competitive market-rate salary aligned with the level and responsibilities of each role. Our total reward package is designed to reflect the seniority and impact of the position and includes a range of attractive benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing.
Submit your application today and discover what's possible at Tetra Tech RPS Consulting.
In alignment with the Equality Act 2010, we will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates and employees requiring additional arrangements. This could include adaptations to work schedules, training approaches, or the physical workspace. Please inform us if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process or in your day-to-day role.
Flexible working options are available in this role, with working patterns agreed collaboratively between employees and line managers to support individual wellbeing and optimal performance.
Why join Tetra Tech RPS?
At Tetra Tech RPS, our people are our success. We thrive on solving the problems that matter-whether in urbanisation, natural resources, or sustainability. With a collaborative culture, agile working, and access to some of the brightest minds in the industry, we empower our teams to deliver exceptional outcomes while building fulfilling careers.
In 2023, RPS became part of Tetra Tech, a global leader in consulting and engineering with 30,000 employees across 550 offices in 120+ countries. Together, we combine deep local expertise with global reach, delivering science-led solutions to complex challenges in water, environment, infrastructure, and clean energy. Join us and be part of a connected, forward-thinking community that's shaping a better future.
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