Principal Consultant - Rail and Mass Transit

Overview

Role: Principal Consultant - Safety Assurance (Rail) 

Location: USA – Remote working from; New Jersey, California, Colarado Oregan, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida & Virginia.

Role ID: 2025-2905

Salary: upto $195k USD per annum

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world 

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. 

The Role 

Are you seeking a role that offers dynamic challenges and the opportunity to leverage your expertise in Safety Assurance? We are looking for talented individuals who are ready to step up and make an impact in our Rail Certification and Consulting business.  Are you someone who thrives in dynamic environments, eager to utilize your skillset to its fullest potential. Whether your expertise lies in Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Signalling, or O&M, you're open to supporting various facets of the rail industry. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Produce high-quality analysis, assessments, reports, and designs to support client projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets. 

• Mentor and guide junior colleagues, ensuring project activities align with company procedures and standards. 

• Innovate new tools and techniques to meet client needs, drawing from global best practices. 

• Plan and execute project activities, ensuring timely delivery and client satisfaction. 

• Provide technical expertise and inputs for business development activities and proposals. 

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, ensuring client safety and satisfaction. 

• Represent our company in client meetings, workshops, and industry events. 

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive project success. 

• Assume leadership roles as needed to support business objectives. 

• Contribute to the growth of our North American business through delivering excellence to our clients. 

Key Competencies and Experience 

• Highly experienced in the rail industry and proven track record working in safety assurance and / or assessment. 

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• Strong organisational abilities, flexible and adept at meeting deadlines. 

Desirable experience 

• In depth knowledge of CMREA / CSM / CENELEC standards. 

• Familiarity with the US railway system and safety assurance/ISA best practices. 

Working here 

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. 

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. 

Work life balance  

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor 

Benefits 

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.  

Next steps 

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. 

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. 

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