System Safety Engineer

Your in depth understanding of safety within the rail industry and an appreciation of the systems engineering lifecycle will help you to demonstrate that the works carried out by the on HS2 meet the employers requirements as set out in the Works Information and Contract Requirements Technical. As a System Safety Engineer, you will lead the process of undertaking system safety hazard identification and risk assessments, identifying safety measures and evidence of implementation and the associated management plans and reports.

You will have the opportunity to work for a joint venture that brings together an industry-leading combination of tried, tested and successful partnerships, world-wide high-speed rail and civil experience and extensive national and regional knowledge. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.   

About the job: 

This role will be working within a small team ensuring all teams undertake System Safety activities on work in line with HS2 statutory obligations under the Railway and Other Guided Systems Regulations (ROGS), the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA) and National Technical Specifications Notices (NTSNs) . This includes ensuring that all work packages understand the relevant requirements, and provide the appropriate Validation and Verification that the requirements have been met.

The S1/S2 contract is currently progressing in a phased manner from detailed design to construction.  My client are required to manage the system safety activities through construction to final handover to HS2.

Key Responsibilities
•    Support the System Safety Manager to maintain the System Safety Management Plan.
•    Liaise with construction leads and subcontracts to ensure appropriate System Safety activities are planned and undertaken across multiple assets on the project.
•    Production and submission of asset specific system safety status reports to support the progressive assurance of the construction phase of S1/S2.
•    Provide advice on system safety practices and procedures to construction project teams.
•    Prepare and deliver briefings and awareness training to engender the appropriate system safety competence within the project team. 
•    Report on system safety activities progress and issues across the project area to the System Safety Manager.
•    Contribute to the continued improvement of the technical assurance strategy, processes and systems.
•    Support activities undertaken by the wider Systems Engineering & Assurance Team, to include but not limited to;
o    Tracking system safety assurance deliverables by asset and project phase.
o    Assist with maintaining configuration control in relation to changes imposed on the project.
o    Contributing to Technical Assurance activities required to achieve L3 Certification.

About you: 
As a System Safety Engineer your skills and qualifications will include:
•    Exposure to, or an interest in Systems Engineering and Technical Assurance;
•    Experience of the application of system safety assurance processes in major railway projects and knowledge of CSM;
•    Capable of working collaboratively and effectively with project delivery teams, management and the project leadership, clients, sub-contractors and other major stakeholders;
•    High standard of verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, able to communicate technical assurance and system engineering concepts to construction teams;
•    Awareness of the various disciplines involved in delivering major railway projects, their roles and responsibilities and their relationship to assurance.
•    Good information management and analytical skills, able to quickly and efficiently seek out the relevant and pertinent points from large volumes of project information.
•    Experienced in the use of project information tools and management systems including MS Office and web-based collaboration technologies for project information and process management, such as Enterprise Bentley, Projectwise or similar.
•    Familiarity with requirements management tools, particularly IBM Rational DOORS;
•    Good attention to detail.

System Safety Engineer
London – North Acton (with some home working)
Competitive salary
Permanent
Flexible working

Keywords: Systems engineer, Rail, HS2, Requirements, Design, Process Improvement, Safety, CSM, Common safety methods, Analyse, Construction, Analysis, V&V, DOORS, System, Tunnels, Human factors.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.  

This is a permanent position.