Job Description

Assistant Project Engineer [Systems]

Location: Swindon / Hybrid

Salary: \xc2\xa325,000 - \xc2\xa330,000

Summary

A global organisation at the forefront of railway safety are looking to take on an Assistant Project Engineer to support systems engineering and assurance activities across our diverse project portfolio.

This a great opportunity for progression and development within a growing and innovative business and training will be provided.

You will support a wide range of projects which range from a multi-billion pound transformative railway infrastructure programme which will improve connectivity in the North, the introduction of new signalling systems on some of the busiest approaches into London, new Railway Stations for Local Authorities and the breakthrough in transportation technology, Hyperloop.

You will use your engineering skills to understand the integration of railway systems to help us deliver upon our commitments; keeping those that interact with the railway free from harm, keep people moving and help demonstrate how the requirements of Railway Regulatory Law are being met.

Key Accountabilities

- Providing support in the delivery of customer projects in the area of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS);
- Become involved with projects across the complete project lifecycle including tender and proposal development to ensure that an appropriate definition of the RAMS related requirements is prepared and implemented;
- Ensure all the RAMS activities are completed consistent with the project technical, budgetary and delivery requirements;
- Implement a common and auditable approach in the identification of Safety and RAM requirements, their implementation, and the demonstration of compliance with those requirements;
- Prepare System Definition documents and Project Authorisation Strategies to clearly describe the changes being made to functional railway infrastructure and the Regulatory requirements to be met;
- Prepare System Safety Plans to describe the system safety activities to be conducted throughout a project\'s lifecycle;
- Contribute to the risk management process to identify hazardous events and their causes, develop safety requirements that will mitigate them and capture evidence to show how those risks have been managed through the project lifecycle;
- Develop Safety Justification Reports that describes the status of the risk management process;
- Comply with current best practice, including relevant legislation, standards (e.g. CENELEC 50126/50128/50129, the Common Safety Method (CSM), IEC 61508 etc.) and guidelines;
- Keep up to date with risk assessment and risk management issues

Essential Requirements:

- Formal education in engineering, maths, computer science, science discipline
- 1 year of experience in a safety/mission critical environment.
- Experience of developing technical documentation.

Desirable Requirements:

- A degree in engineering, maths, computer science, science discipline or equivalent training.
- 1 year+ experience in rail industry or similar safety/mission critical environment
- Understanding or experience of RAMS

Skills/ Aptitudes/ Behaviours:

- Knowledge of Mechanical, Electronic and Systems engineering principles.
- Ability and willingness to operate at strategic and operational level.
- Ability to communicate and report, in both verbal and written English, to colleagues and clients on highly technical matters.
- Positive attitude, self-motivation, and excellent time management.
- Ability to build rapport and strong relationships.
- Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty that comes with project delivery.
- Excellent communication and IT skills including Microsoft Office.

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Navartis Ltd is a specialist recruitment company supplying highly skilled technical and management professionals within the global Transportation, Civil Engineering & Utility industries, if you are seeking a new position our recruitment team can locate the opportunity to suit your needs.

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