# Senior/Principal System Safety Engineer - Rail

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Dublin
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior/Principal System Safety Engineer - Rail at WSP, you will provide system safety support and guidance to clients on large, complex projects under the direction of the senior team.

Key responsibilities include:

- Taking a leading role on smaller projects, under the mentorship of the senior team, which may involve planning, supporting, and chairing Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment workshops.

- Preparing System Definitions, Safety Plans, Hazard Records, and Safety Justification Reports, demonstrating the application of CSM-RA for rail projects that deliver technical, operational, and organisational change.

- Collaborating with clients and internal teams to develop designs, technical standards, specifications, and requirements for rail projects.

- Acting as Project Manager for smaller projects, with the support of the senior team.

Requirements:

- A degree in a technical engineering-related discipline, or extensive relevant experience.

- Relevant post-graduate experience in system safety engineering, preferably in rail.

- Corporate membership with an appropriate professional institution (e.g., SaRS, IET, IMechE).

- Professional registration, or working towards registration, as an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer.

- Familiarity with Engineering Safety Management (e.g., iESM or Yellow Book).

- Knowledge and experience in the application of the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA) Regulation on UK rail projects.

- Knowledge and background in a mainline or metro railway discipline, e.g., signalling, telecoms, E&P.

Desirable requirements:

- Knowledge and experience in the application of CENELEC EN 50126/8/9.

- Familiarity with EN50121 (EMC) and cyber security.

- Experience as an assessor (either Independent Safety Assessor or with an Assessment Body).

- Experience and/or formal qualifications in project and commercial management.

- Experience in the consultancy environment.

## Skills

### Required
- System Safety Engineering
- Rail Projects
- CSM-RA Regulation
- Engineering Safety Management
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- CENELEC EN 50126/8/9
- EN50121 (EMC)
- Cyber Security
- Independent Safety Assessor
- Project and Commercial Management

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