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.