System Safety Interface Engineer

Location: Podium, London or Snow Hill, Birmingham

Salary: Base salary: c£43,750pa to £54,650pa (London) c£40,750 to £50,950pa (Birmingham) depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Systems Safety Interface Engineer at HS2, you will be an engineer within the Construction Engineering system safety team responsible for the leadership of the system safety activities in Phase One of HS2, supporting the design and construction of a safe, technically integrated, and compliant future operational railway.

About the role:

• Responsible for enabling the HS2 Phase One projects to ensure compliance with the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations and CSM-RA.
• Managing risk assessments for specific discipline areas, being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up risk workshops.
• Developing reports to justify and explain safety assessment results within the organisation and to independent assessment bodies.
• Supporting the HS2 project wide Hazard Record, analysing hazards and compliance evidence to satisfy CSM-RA.
• Managing specific interfaces to the AsBo/NoBo, supporting contractors during independent assessments by the AsBo/NoBo and supporting the flow of evidence to demonstrate CSM-RA compliance for the railway.
• Input to strategic plans such as HS2 Authorisation Plan and key governance documents such as papers to the System Review Panel.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Ability to undertake qualitative and quantitative assessment of risk as part of railway safety engineering or similar.
• Awareness of interoperability compliance.
• Ability to present safety arguments to independent assessment bodies and regulators.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the CSM-RA regulation or a similar application of engineering safety management.
• Knowledge of hazard identification and analysis techniques and management of hazards through hazard records.
• Working knowledge in HAZOP, Fault Tree, and Event Tree analysis in a railway environment or similar.
• Knowledge of engineering safety management and compliance with EU and UK law relating to engineering safety.

Types of Experience:

• Experience in engineering safety management and compliance with EU and UK law relating to engineering safety.
• Experience of working in major rail infrastructure upgrade projects or alternatively, a level of consultancy experience in producing assessment and deliverables for a project of HS2 scale and scope.
• Experience of delivering evidence of system safety / engineering safety within a safety-critical environment, e.g. aviation, rail, maritime, oil/gas, nuclear or military applications.
• The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.