Senior Safety Consultant (Permanent)

About Cenheard Limited Cenheard is a high-growth engineering and health & safety consultancy headquartered in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. We bridge the gap between regulatory health and safety management and complex, hands-on machinery safety engineering. Operating across the full machinery compliance lifecycle, we help industrial manufacturers and OEMs navigate complex legislation with clarity and technical rigor. Every project we deliver is peer-reviewed under our BS EN ISO 9001 Quality Management System, combining technical excellence with practical, real-world solutions.

We are seeking an experienced, highly competent Senior Machinery Safety Consultant to lead our high-level functional safety and compliance projects. Acting as a technical authority, you will take full ownership of Phase 1 design risk assessments and functional safety specifications, hold independent Technical Construction File (TCF) publishing sign-off authority, and lead client-facing compliance projects from initial scoping through to final UKCA / CE certification. This is a senior position designed to provide immediate technical leadership, mentor junior consulting staff, and act as a peer review authority within our ISO 9001 QMS framework.

Senior Machinery Safety Consultant.

Job type: Permanent.

Bonus: Performance driven bonus scheme.

Hours: 40hrs / week.

Offset travel model: Beyond reasonable travel to client site’s accrued in 1-for-1 Time Off in Lieu (TOIL). Holiday allowance: 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + extra day off for your Birthday (34 days total).

Pension scheme: Up to 7% matched pension scheme.

Vehicle: Car allowance or salary sacrifice lease.

Expenses: Plus, full meal, overnight, and travel expenses covered in line with HMRC rates (currently £0.55p/mile).

Comprehensive private healthcare coverage.

Company laptop, mobile phone, and branded workwear.

Hybrid working model split between client sites, report writing from home, and collaborative working at our Harrogate head office.

Pride in protecting workforce safety and client capital investments.

• Nurturing long-term relationships through fairness, honesty, and respect.
• Lead multidisciplinary Hazard and Operability Studies (BS EN 61882) for complex or integrated machinery lines to identify process risks during early project scoping.
• Design Risk Assessments (DRA): Author comprehensive, full-lifecycle risk evaluations in accordance with BS EN ISO 12100 across all machine life phases, establishing required risk reduction measures using the hierarchy of control.
• Safety Requirements Specifications (SRS): Author detailed Functional Safety Requirements Specifications (under BS EN ISO 13849) to define required performance levels (PLr), control architecture categories, safe states, manual reset behaviours, and fault reactions.
• Conduct technical design reviews of safety-related parts of control systems (SRP/CS) and review client/OEM Hardware Design Specifications (HDS) and schematics.

Safety circuit verification: Perform mathematical modelling and verification using evaluation software (e.g. Calculate safety distances and light curtain / scanner positioning under BS EN ISO 13857 & BS EN ISO 13855.

• Safety Function Testing (SFT): Lead physical, component-level fault injection testing on client sites to validate that all safety inputs, logic solvers, and output channels return machinery to a safe state under fault conditions.
• Pre-PUWER inspections: Execute pre-commissioning assessments while OEMs and installers are on-site to identify non conformities early.
• Evaluate machinery against applicable Essential Health and Safety Requirements (EHSRs), review OEM Declarations of Conformity/Incorporation, compile complete audit-ready TCFs, and exercise full publishing sign-off authority.
• Perform post-commissioning compliance audits under PUWER ACOP L22, evaluating safe operating procedures (SOPs), LOTO, maintenance schedules, and operator training.
• Serve as a technical mentor to machinery safety consultants and act as a designated peer reviewer under Cenheard's BS EN ISO 9001 quality framework.

Time-served engineering apprenticeship or Level 4 HNC/HND / Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Control, Systems, or Mechatronics Engineering.

• Functional safety accreditation: Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE) or TÜV Functional Safety Engineer / Expert certification.
• Standards & regulatory mastery: Extensive knowledge of BS EN ISO 12100, BS EN ISO 13849-1/-2, BS EN 60204-1, BS EN ISO 14120, BS EN ISO 13857, BS EN ISO 13855, and the UK Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations / EU Machinery Directive.
• Hands-on software & design competency: Direct experience using SISTEMA software, reading electrical/fluid schematics, and authoring SRS documentation.
• Mobility: Full UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel to client sites.