System Safety Interface Engineer
| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | London (Euston) or Birmingham (Snowhill) & Hybrid Working |
| Area | London, UKMidlands, UK |
| Sector | High Speed Rail |
| Salary | £60 - 70,000 + Pen(6:12) + health + 25 hols |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | remoteapi |
| Telephone | 07881022741 |
| Job Ref | HS20036 |
| Job Views | 92 |
- Description
- System Safety Interface Engineer is required to work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two) 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 will work on Phase 1, principally on the Northern Section conducting assurance activities ensuring compliance with the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA) fir the £6billion Balfour Beatty / Vinci JV for main works civils.
The successful candidate will be an engineer within the Construction Engineering system safety team responsible for the leadership of the system safety activities in Phase One of HS2, supporting the design and construction of a safe, technically integrated and compliant future operational railway.
Reporting to the Lead System Safety Engineering the Construction Engineering system safety team, which this roles sits within, works with contractors to ensure compliance with the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA). This team also co-operates with the central ID system safety team on the development of safety processes and procedures for the HS2 project as well as directly leading or managing risk assessments. The team also works with the HS2 CSM-RA Assessment Body (AsBo) and the Notified Body (NoBo) in the assessment of Phase One projects.
Successful Candidate
The successful Candidate will be a degree qualifies Engineer (ideally chartered or nearing chartership) and a System Safety specialist who have worked in the Railway industry for a Client or consultancy organisations and has experience conducting assurance and compliance with the Common Safety Method of Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA).
Work Situation – Hybrid
The office location is Birmingham Snowhill or London Euston they operate a flexible hybrid working model with plans to be 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.
System Safety Interface Engineer Salary
Birmingham, Snowhill £60 – 65,000 + Pen (6:12) + 25 days hol
London, Euston £65 – 70,000 + Pen (6:12) + 25day hol
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for enabling the HS2 Phase One projects to ensure compliance with the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations and CSM-RA.
- Managing risk assessments for specific discipline areas, being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up risk workshops.
- Developing reports to be able to justify and explain safety assessment results within the organisation and to independent assessment bodies.
- Supporting the HS2 project wide Hazard Record, analysing hazards and compliance evidence to satisfy CSM-RA.
- Managing specific interfaces to the AsBo/NoBo, supporting contractors during independent assessments by the AsBo/ NoBo and supporting the flow of evidence to demonstrate CSM-RA compliance for the railway.
- Input to strategic plans such as HS2 Authorisation Plan and key governance documents such as papers to the System Review Panel.
We are Looking for
For a System Safety specialist who have worked in the Railway industry for a Client or consultancy organisations and has experience conducting assurance and compliance with he \Common Safety Method of Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA). Would also consider system safety engineers from other safety critical sectors – nuclear, marine, airport but Rail is preferable. In addition the successful candidate will be a degree qualifies Engineer (ideally chartered or nearing chartership).
Skills:
- Ability to undertake qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk as part of railway safety engineering or similar.
- Awareness of interoperability compliance.
- Ability to present safety arguments to independent assessment bodies and regulators.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the CSM-RA regulation or a similar application of engineering safety management.
- Knowledge of hazard identification and analysis techniques and management of hazards through hazard records.
- Working knowledge in HAZOP, Fault Tree and Event Tree analysis in a railway environment or similar.
- Knowledge of engineering safety management and compliance with EU and UK law relating to engineering safety
Type of experience:
- Experience in engineering safety management and compliance with EU and UK law relating to engineering safety.
- Experience of working in major rail infrastructure upgrade projects or alternatively, a level of consultancy experience in producing assessment and deliverables for a project of HS2 scale and scope.
- Experience of delivering evidence of system safety / engineering safety within a safety critical environment, ideally with Rail experience but would also consider other safety critical environments such as aviation, maritime, oil/gas, nuclear or military applications.
