Overview
The role will be predominantly focused on the rail industry, supporting safety assurance across the full rail value chain, including:
- Train control and signalling systems, including conventional and digital railway applications such as ETCS / ERTMS, CBTC, interlockings, train protection and traffic management systems.
- Rail infrastructure, including track, civil structures, stations, depots, power supply and associated fixed assets.
- Railway communications systems, including safety related and operational communications (e.g. GSM R, FRMCS, data and control networks).
- Rolling stock, including vehicle integration, interfaces, modification and change.
- Operations, maintenance and change, including operational concept development, degraded modes, asset management and system upgrades.
Projects supported by this role vary in their maturity, complexity and level of precedent. Some will involve well established technologies, operating models and regulatory expectations, while others will require careful interpretation of standards and the application of first principles engineering judgement where guidance is evolving or incomplete.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of defined safety assurance tasks, work packages or small projects, managing outputs to time, cost and quality.
- Deliver system safety activities including hazard identification, analysis and risk assessment (e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA).
- Chair and facilitate safety workshops with clients, partners and technical specialists.
- Be responsible for coordinating and implementing technical safety and risk engineering activities, including hazard identification and analysis, safety case and safety justification development, and safety management systems.
- Support clients as they introduce new or evolving technologies and respond to emerging strategic challenges, alongside more traditional rail programmes, such as Decarbonisation and sustainability, Digitalisation, climate resilience and adaptation.
- Work with Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo), supporting preparation of safety evidence and responses to findings.
Qualifications
- Is a Chartered Engineer with membership of a relevant professional institution.
- Has strong experience leading safety and risk assessment programmes (qualitative and quantitative) and experience in system safety engineering within the rail sector, applied to complex, multi‑disciplinary and safety‑critical systems.
- Has a proven understanding of safety assurance activities required to achieve Authorisation for Placing into Service for rail systems, subsystems or assets and solid understanding and experience of applying relevant UK and European railway legislation and standards, including ROGS, CSM RA, NTSNs, TSIs, and EN 50126/50716/50129.
- Has experience applying safety analysis techniques such as HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, FTA, and developing safety cases and safety justifications.
- Has worked across multiple elements of the rail value chain (e.g. infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock, communications or operations).
- Has experience working as, or working closely with, Independent Safety Assessors / Assessment Bodies (ISA / AsBo), including supporting independent safety assessment and assurance processes.
- Is fluent in Danish, Dutch and/or German (spoken and/or written) to support European project delivery (non‑essential requirement).
Benefits
Competitive, fair and equitable pay; private medical insurance; life assurance; accident insurance; income protection cover; flexible benefits; profit sharing; flexible benefits for wellbeing; access to learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
Arup is an equal‑opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
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