Safety Consultant

OME Safety Consultants

50-80K DOE + Bens

This permanent opportunity offers a hybrid working model with travel to Bristol and client sites. It suits experienced professionals with current SC clearance and a background in , Weapons, Ordnance, Munitions & Explosives systems safety, or defence engineering.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll work directly with clients, providing specialist consultancy services and supporting business development. Your engineering expertise will help shape the design, operation, and maintenance of complex systems ensuring technical risks are identified, communicated, and managed, and that safety is never compromised.

You’ll join a team delivering some of the most advanced WOME programmes in the UK, including:

Directed energy weapons

Hypersonics

Autonomous ordnance clearance

Conventional weapons

Strategic deterrent systems

Your work will span multiple platforms including air, land, sea, and sub-surface environments.

Key Responsibilities

Authoring safety management plans and safety cases

Undertaking detailed hazard and risk analyses

Deriving and demonstrating compliance with safety requirements

Conducting WOME integration studies across platforms

Supporting WOME certification and qualification programmes

What You’ll Need

Degree-level education (or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline

Current SC clearance

Experience in WOME or OME delivery, ideally across defence platforms

Experience in safety management plans and safety cases, and undertaking detailed hazard and risk analyses.

Desirable

Chartered status with the UK Engineering Council

Prior consultancy experience

Salary and Benefits

Salary: £50,000 to £80,000 depending on experience

Bonus: Annual bonus linked to company and individual performance

Leave: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with additional loyalty leave

Pension: Matched contributions up to 8% from day one

Healthcare: Private medical cover

Protection: Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection (75% of salary)

Development: Targeted professional development and paid membership fees

Lifestyle: Cycle to work and EV lease salary sacrifice schemes

Support: Family-friendly policies