Senior Consultant – Dangerous Goods

About the role

Join Arup’s Resilience, Security & Risk team to lead high‑impact projects in fire risk, dangerous goods and process safety across Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region. As a Senior Consultant you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and deliver risk‑based engineering solutions that enhance safety and resilience.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver technically excellent Risk & Process Safety projects across fire risk, dangerous goods and process safety disciplines.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, collaborate with internal specialists, external design partners and clients to achieve integrated outcomes.
• Prepare, review and sign off complex technical reports, compliance assessments, risk assessments and engineering documentation.
• Manage projects from proposal through delivery, ensuring quality, budget and timeline objectives are met.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Required profile

• Recognised tertiary qualification in Engineering (Fire Safety, Chemical or Mechanical preferred) with Chartered registration.
• Significant industry experience in fire risk, dangerous goods, process safety or a closely related risk‑based engineering discipline.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Proven leadership, project management and mentoring capabilities.

Required skills

• Complex risk assessments
• Compliance reviews
• Fire consequence assessment and modelling
• Dangerous goods management

What we offer

• Competitive, fair and equitable pay with profit‑share participation.
• Benefits supporting health and wellbeing, extensive learning opportunities and a supportive inclusive culture.
• Opportunity to work on socially useful projects that have real impact.