Senior/Principal Safety Consultant (Energy)

DNV Germany Holding GmbH; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

About Energy Systems

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.

DNV Energy Systems Risk Advisory is seeking Senior and Principal Safety Consultant to join our Stockport office. Working in cross functional consulting teams involved in project delivery, project management and business development. We support clients from a wide range of major hazard sectors, including government agencies, energy producers and distributors, chemical manufacturers, renewables developers, and oil and gas operators. With our advanced research programmes in hydrogen, carbon capture and renewables, coupled with our world leading modelling capability and deep process safety management expertise, we are at the forefront of helping clients navigate the energy transition.

Risk Advisory is a growing department of approximately 150 people in our Energy Systems business area, with offices in Aberdeen, Loughborough, Stockport and London. We provide a wide range of safety and integrity engineering and risk management services to the energy industry both onshore and offshore. We utilise a comprehensive range of tools for consequence modelling and risk analysis, typically developed and validated through large/full scale experiments performed at our major hazards testing and research facility in Spadeadam.

Our Opportunity:

As a Senior/Principal Safety Consultant, your role will involve interacting with customers and colleagues across our business to collaborate on technical problems and to develop solutions. You will contribute to establishing the UK Risk Advisory strategy and driving its implementation by involving a wide range of team members, providing project QA and technical direction. You will also support in the development of other consultants through project management activity and coaching.

In this role, you will lead the delivery of safety-related projects, ensuring they meet scope, budget, and customer expectations, while coordinating support from multidisciplinary teams. You’ll share your expertise across project activities, mentor junior staff, and delegate appropriately to focus on complex challenges. Your insights into customer needs will help shape and grow our service offerings, and you’ll contribute to department-wide consistency through collaboration and knowledge sharing. Innovation is key—you’ll continuously seek ways to enhance delivery processes and tackle novel problems using your technical expertise.

Your approach will balance technical innovation with practical delivery, tackling complex challenges through deep expertise and broad industry knowledge. As a trusted advisor, fostering long-term client relationships, you'll utilise your strong understanding of client priorities and strategic industry trends/insights, to influence decision-making, maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and drive repeat business. You will strategically engage with the market through wider activities to showcase DNV capabilities, for example, professional / industry bodies, conferences, JIPs, external publications, or social media.

You will foster strong teamwork across our departments, build regional networks, and drive results. You’ll have the ability to lead project teams to successful delivery, ensuring alignment with scope, budget, and schedule, while supporting others to do the same. With a strong commercial mindset, you’ll contribute to business growth by securing new opportunities—both for yourself and others—while actively developing services that meet evolving client needs.

We place great value on all our people and the contribution they make to our business, so it’s important that our rewards make us all feel valued here. That’s why we recognise individual needs and offer a flexible reward and benefits package that puts you first, including;

• Fantastic career progression opportunities, with the resources to support your development, and the freedom to satisfy your curiosity and desire to learn
• Non-contractual profit share scheme
• Lifestyle benefits: 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity for up to 10 days unpaid leave, sabbatical leave, flexible working options
• Wellbeing benefits: (inc Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Health Assessments, Gym allowance). Company contribution towards eye tests and glasses (for computer/laptop users), and Flu Vaccinations. Also, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides free and confidential support for issues including work, family, relationships, money and health and we provide free fruit in our offices
• Financial Benefits: including a Pension Scheme with employer pension contributions up to 9%, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Travel benefits: Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to Work Scheme, Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (for personal use)
• Re-imbursement of relevant Professional Membership Fees (up to £570)
• Access to employee retail discount site for high street and on-line shopping

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

We are interested in people with the experience and ability to deliver a broad range of our services, ideally including several of the following:

• Renewables safety studies (e.g. for H2, CCUS, Wind)
• HAZID/HAZOP leadership
• LOPA/SIL/Functional Safety leadership
• QRA - onshore and offshore
• Onshore and Offshore safety & risk engineering
• COMAH/Offshore Safety Cases
• Safety / Loss Prevention support to major Operators and EPC contractors
• Safety and risk aspects of land use planning
• Human factors assessments
• Process Safety Management Systems
• Independent expert auditing
• Incident Investigation

In addition, you will bring;

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or other relevant STEM degree (minimum 2:1), with relevant industrial experience.
• Chartered Engineer status, or significant progress towards this
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills - able to analyse and understand complex problems and create logical solutions and ideas using domain knowledge and a range of techniques / theory and software / tools
• Comfortable in engaging with colleagues and customers and communicating effectively in written and verbal reports, presentations and/or proposals
• Ability to delegate more routine aspects of their work
• Project management skills

The role will be based in Stockport with an expectation of three days per week attendance in the office. However, flexible working options may be considered. The position also involves travel within the UK and occasionally overseas for client-related work.

If you're an experienced technical safety professional and have a passion for safety, we'd love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to build on and enhance your existing knowledge in a challenging and rewarding environment!