Systems Engineer - Interface Management
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | London (Euston) or Birmingham (Snowhill) & Hybrid Working |
| Area | London, UKMidlands, UK |
| Sector | High Speed Rail |
| Salary | £50 - 60,000 + pension (6:12) + 25 (Hols) |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Charlton Recruitment |
| Telephone | 07881022741 |
| Job Ref | HS20056 |
| Job Views | 475 |
- Description
- Systems Engineer - Interface Management is required working within the Client Organisation responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK this is a multi-billion-pound high-speed railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. The role is working within the Chief Engineer’s group (central engineering department) on the project within a Prime Systems Integrator team, and is accountable for planning the set-up of the operating entity and the trial operations to transition to a working railway.
Job overview
The Systems Engineer - Interface Management implements and improves the HS2’s technical Interface Management capability across the whole HS2 organisation, working closely with the delivery teams to enable effective integration across disciplines and delivery phases and to ensure a common approach to the management of HS2’s technical interfaces is established and maintained. The role will work within HS2’s core Prime System Integrator (PSI) function controlling and de-risking PSI interfaces.
The focus of the role is to ensure the Railway Systems contracts (Electrification, Pway, Signalling etc) are effectively integrated this has been highlighted as the Higher Risk areas especially how the rail systems intergrate with the Rolling Stock and at Stations & depots. The role reports to the Lead Interface Specification Manager.
Progression & Development
High Speed Two is a rapidly growing organisation with the opportunities for progression and development truly fantastic. HS2 already have a superb reputation for progressing from within highlighted by the fact 40% of all vacancies are filled internally. High Speed Two have embraced a System Approach to delivering such a hugely complex & large programmes of works the opportunities across the organisation within System Engineering, Integration, Engineering Management, Configuration Requirements & Assurance are unrivalled across the industry.
Work Situation – Hybrid
The office location is London, Euston OR Birmingham and they operate a flexible hybrid working model working 4/5 days a fortnight from the office - so 2 /3 days a week. Overall, this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based front the office more you can.
Salary
Birmingham £50,000 – 55,000 + Pen(6:12) + 25 days Hol (mid-point £52,152)
London £55,000 – 60,000 + Pen(6:12) + 25 days Hol (mid-point £56,)
Duties & Responsibilities
- Implement the HS2-wide interface management framework to develop and improve HS2’s Interface Management capability, making it fit for the delivery of the Railway Systems contracts whilst ensuring suitable resources, tools and processes are in place.
- Drive the resolution of technical interfaces escalated to the Prime System Integrator in liaison with the wider Chief Engineer’s group and Project Engineering teams to ensure the integrity of the HS2 system baseline is protected.
- Develop and provide data-driven interface reporting to enable the pro-active management and mitigation of technical risks and effective decision making within HS2 in its role as the Prime System Integrator (PSI).
- Work as part of the System Design team on the risk mitigation of technical interfaces identified for PSI oversight to drive down HS2’s overall system integration risk exposure.
- Train and provide guidance to the interface engineers/managers across the HS2 organisation to ensure they have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver interface management objectives set out in the framework.
- Be a Super User for HS2’s Interface Management Tool Relatics and provide training and support to the wider organisation incl. HS2’s supply chain.
- Support a culture of continuous improvement and use best practice to identify opportunities for efficiencies across the delivery teams. Identify further improvements to Relatics to enable effective and efficient interface management across all delivery entities. Identify and scope opportunities for further integration of data with wider System Integration team.
- Identify and prioritise interface issues so they can be resolved at the appropriate level and in a timely manner, including the preparation of change papers where governance panel decision are required.
- Conduct audits of the application of interface management process within HS2 and the supply chain.
- You will be expected to actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
Candidate Criteria
Ideally looking for a Systems Engineer with Railway experience, ideally Railway Systems integration experience (S&T, E&P, Pway etc). Rail experience is essential for the role, however, would consider a discipline engineer, Project Engineer, who has a System Engineering way of thinking and broadly understands both the Sub System and importantly the System view and the V-life cycle. You will have a broad/basic understanding of requirements /V&V, System Assurance, Configuration. The candidate will have experience on rail multi-disciplinary projects managing integration across disciplines and ideally across contracts.
SKILLS
- Broad Systems Engineering skills and ability to provide specialist technical support and leadership to project development / delivery teams,
- Data analytics and reporting skills
- Ability to engage with and communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to influence and manage stakeholders effectively at various levels and from different parts of the wider organisation
- Applies principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from other Subject Matter Experts or others.
KNOWLEDGE
- Understanding of railway operations and maintenance and engineered subsystems (i.e. railway systems, rolling stock, stations in particular) and how they typically integrate and interface.
- Basic Understanding of systems engineering technics and awareness of other specialist disciplines, such as requirements/V&V management, system assurance, configuration management.
- Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements.
- Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2.
- The application of the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment or similar Rail Legislation – worked under similar regimes.
- Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
TYPE OF EXPERIENCE
- Experience in managing engineering and safety activity on engineering projects/ programmes.
- Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications on any engineering projects/ programmes
- Experience of the integration of multiple systems in a project environment.
