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.
Position summary
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.
Renumeration & benefits
Job title: Senior Machinery Safety Consultant.
Job type: Permanent.
Salary: 65k – £80k per annum.
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: Full meal, overnight, and travel expenses covered in line with HMRC rates (currently £0.55p/mile).
Healthcare: Comprehensive private healthcare coverage.
Professional subscriptions: All professional body memberships paid in full (e.g. IET, InstMC, IMechE).
Hardware & mobility: Company laptop, mobile phone, and branded workwear.
Working flexibility: Hybrid working model split between client sites, report writing from home, and collaborative working at our Harrogate head office.
Values & mindset alignment
Cenheard is proud to live by our 6-core values:
- PROTECT: Pride in protecting workforce safety and client capital investments.
- PEOPLE: Nurturing long-term relationships through fairness, honesty, and respect.
- ENGAGE: Ability to engage effectively across all levels – from shop-floor operators to board directors.
- PASSION: Enjoys complex problem-solving and technical engineering excellence.
- ACTION: Proactive, integrity-driven approach to achieving statutory compliance.
- SIMPLICITY: Practical engineering mindset – turning complex legislation into simple, actionable steps.
Key responsibilities across the compliance lifecycle
- HAZOP studies: 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.
- SRP/CS reviews: 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. SISTEMA) to calculate Category, MTTFd, Diagnostic Coverage (DC), and Common Cause Failures (CCF).
- Safeguarding positioning: 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 nonconformities early.
- UKCA / CE Technical Construction File (TCF) sign-off: 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. - PUWER assessments: Perform post-commissioning compliance audits under PUWER ACOP L22, evaluating safe operating procedures (SOPs), LOTO, maintenance schedules, and operator training.
- OEM accountability: Support clients in holding OEM suppliers commercially and contractually accountable for rectifying non-conformances at supplier expense.
- Team mentoring & peer review: 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.
Candidate profile & qualifications
- Engineering background: 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.
Closing date
30th November 2026