Description
Safety Manager - Railways Network - London
Our Client is seeking a System Safety Manager with at least 5 to 10 years proven track record of expertise with a railway network.
The role will be to monitor that Safety Engineering on the rail network Project is conducted in a manner that is compliant to the requirements of UK Law and good practice.
In order to achieve a level of risk that is both tolerable and reduced as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
Supporting the Employer in relation to:
- Acting as part of the systems team in all matters relating to safety engineering and acting as an informed buyer of safety engineering services
- Planning and managing assurance and safety engineering resources to facilitate consistency of approach across projects and delivery teams, against the specified engineering and legislative requirements
- Checking that the Designer's System Safety Plans are in place and are compliant, with regard to safety engineering, to London Underground, Railway Group Standards, European/UK Standards, Common Safety Methods, Yellow Book and Technical
- Specifications for Interoperability. Undertaking surveillance and checks of the Engineering Safety Management activities against the Designer's System Safety Plans.
- Establishing, improving and maintaining, with engineering teams, the processes and controls for safety engineering and safety assurance activities as part of the life cycle
- Interfacing with project teams and providing external approval bodies on Safety Assurance & Safety Engineering issues
- Representing the railway network on safety engineering matters internally and externally
- Checking that the Rail Network project meets it legal requirements under UK law ie the risk associated with the system delivered is at least tolerable and ALARP
- Checking that the system is engineered to be safe
- Meeting the tight time schedules
- Internal Interfaces- Technical, Health and Safety, Implementation, Directors; Head of Procurement; Engineering Managers
- External Interfaces - CRL Contractors; PDP, PRep, DfT; ORR; NoBos; DeBos; Standards Owners such as RSSB, TfL, LUL etc
- Substantial experience of Safety Engineering & RAM in a railway related environment
- Higher degree in Safety, Risk and Reliability or a degree with demonstrable Safety Engineering content
- Chartered Engineer or member of the Safety and Reliability Society
Please note this is NOT an IT system network role - read the ad - it is for a Safety Manager with extensive knowledge of Railway systems networks.
The duration of the contract will be 3 to 6 months and will be based in London.
Please send your CV in MS Word format.