Occupational Hygienist

Principal Safety Consultant - Defence
As a Principal Safety Consultant, you will be responsible for the delivery of Technical Assurance, safety case, and environmental management services for a wide range of projects, primarily across all the defence domains: land, maritime, air, nuclear, and command and control domains. Experience of implementing safety and/or environmental management in the defence industry is essential, with experience from other high hazard sectors, such as oil and gas or chemical industry, being of interest.
This role is hybrid, with candidates considered from the whole of the South of England. The RPS Defence team has been a leading provider of technical assurance in defence safety and risk consultancy services to clients in the UK for over 30 years. We provide our core safety and environmental assessment services, including management support and independent audit, to both MOD and defence supply chain organizations and some other non-defence, exciting technology-based clients.
RPS, A Tetra Tech company: Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in over than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
Performing safety and/or environmental management support and Independent Safety and/or Environmental Audit across a range of domains
# Leading and mentoring junior staff
# Understanding of UK safety regulations and supporting assessment techniques and software tools. Understanding of UK Defence Sector. Hazard identification and analysis
# Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment
# Safety Case and Hazard Log development
# Independent Safety Audit

Excellent numeracy, report writing, attention to detail, and time management skills. We’re proud to be an accredited ILM training provider, internationally recognized and providing robust fully accredited professional training programs - to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone. We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritizes their wellbeing.
Initial interview via MS Teams and then if successful followed by an interview at the office in Basingstoke. Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusive organization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and without unnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion principles in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communities and clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the best available talent for the company’s future.
Our approach to Diversity and Inclusion
Stronger Together’ is one of our five core behaviors and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace: ‘We are respectful, acknowledge diversity, and recognize the potential and contribution of everyone. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.
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