Overview
Role: Senior Consultant- Human Factors
Location: London, Derby, York, Bristol / Hybrid working
Role ID: 2026-3315
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Human Factors Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will manage multiple projects, support junior colleagues, and ensure high‑quality delivery. You will lead work from bids through to completion, working closely with clients to understand objectives, build strong relationships, and manage resources, costs, and work packages.
You will deliver projects assessing human performance risks and developing human‑centred design solutions. Working with clients such as Network Rail, Hitachi, RSSB, and Transport for London, you will support major programmes across infrastructure, rolling stock, control rooms, accessibility, and digital railway technologies. Your expertise in Human Factors Integration and risk‑based analysis will guide multidisciplinary teams to ensure safety, efficiency, and accessibility.
Ricardo offers a rewarding environment where you can contribute to projects that enhance safety, performance, and sustainability across the rail industry.
Examples Of Our Current Projects Include
- RSSB research projects such as the Development of a Control Communications maturity framework to enable railway operators to assess communications effectiveness within and beyond Control Centres.