A System Safety Engineer is required to work directly for the client organisation who is responsible for building and operating the UK’s New High Speed Rail Network, the role reports to the Lead System Safety Interface Engineer joining a team of 7 System Safety Engineers who are working on Phase 1 of the project.

 

Future of HS2 & Phase 1

Phase 1 of the project, which, is valued c£60 billion has 10 years left to run and the System Safety Interface Engineer will be there to check the system safety right the way through the life cycle of the project from Design, Construction through to Test and commissioning and so this is a very safe long term role with excellent opportunities for progression.

 

Overview of Role:

The role works within the Construction Engineering system safety team ensuring compliance of the main contractors design and construction of a safe, technically integrated and compliant future operational railway on Phase 1 (Stations, Civils, rail systems) – they will directly lead on risk assessments ensuring compliance with the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation an Assessment (CSM-RA). The Construction Engineering System Safety team sits in with the System Integration team.  The Team also works with the independent HS2 CSM-RA Assessment Body (AsBO) and the Approved Body formally NoBo (interoperability compliance) on the assessment of Phase One projects.

 

Job Purpose

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. 

 

Dimensions & Complexity of Role

As a member of the Construction Engineering system safety team, the role will interface with four Main Works Civil Contractors (MWCCs), four major stations, numerous railway system contracts covering track, OCS, M&E lineside and tunnel systems, etc., and multiple depots.  The successful candidate will be making judgements of compliance of plans, risk assessments and designs against regulation and engineering best practice. Also judgement of compliance of the principles of system safety assessment and on the sufficiency of evidence to ensure that a safety requirement has been met.  Complexities will include producing and/or reviewing detailed hazard records and potentially complex risk assessments and have the ability to interrogate and identify any non compliances to CSM-RA.

 

Working Situation

The office location is London, Euston (preferable) although open to Birmingham they operate a flexible hybrid working model working 2 day in the office - 3 from home.  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

London             £60 – 65,580 + Pen (6:12) + 25 hols (potentially £68,859)

Birmingham      £55 – 61,140 + Pen (6:12) + 25 hols (potentially £64,197)

 

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.

 

 

 

Candidate Criteria

 

The ideal candidate will have rail experience (CSM-RA is rail specific), however other industries like Aviation (Air Traffic Management), Nuclear, oil & gas have very similar framework so may be considered but Rail is definitely preferable as would knowledge of rail systems.  You will be an experienced System Safety Engineer with major rail infrastructure (or comparable project) and in addition knowledge of requirements software Doors will also be helpful.  Open to any rail discipline – rolling stock, rail systems, civils etc.

 

The candidate will be a risk assessment specialist with experience ensuring both quantitative and qualitive risk assessment compliance. You will have Experience writing/reviewing safety cases.  Need to be able to demonstrate different Hazard management techniques.  Alongside strong stakeholder management skills - ability to Influence a Stakeholder and get them to change their mind after reviewing their work.

 

 

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, e.g. aviation, rail, maritime, oil/gas, nuclear or military applications.