Role Definition

This exciting role offers an opportunity to provide technical leadership and innovation within the client.

Compliance in the context of an ETCS on-board retrofit project: -

Working as part of a close knit team, the Compliance Engineer shall be the referent on compliance for the UK specific application of a ETCS On-Board retrofit project. The Compliance Engineer will report to the Design & Technical Authority.

The Design team and the System Engineering team defined which standards/laws/regulations the design must comply with, listed in the document called the Technical Baseline. This Technical Baseline is part of the requirement package that the client passes to each design house.

Key Accountabilities

· Gather and present evidence that the designs comply with the technical reference documents (standards, regulations, …) listed in the Technical Baseline

· Check and challenge the evidence of compliance produced both internally (System Engineering, Design, Verification, …) and externally (design houses)
Note that compliance here covers the reference documents

· Produce compliance reports:

o unfitted vehicle compliance report

o retrofitted vehicle compliance report

o these reports contain the evidence of compliance, to be used as input to both the Safety Case & the Technical File

· Support approval process, to obtain APIS for each train class

· Work directly with the Approval Manager, the Validation Manager, the assessors (NoBo, DeBo, AsBo), the Design & Technical Authority

· Support the UK ETCS On-board delivery team through the design, approval, test and commissioning activities for vehicle First in Class project

Milestones

· Contributes to the constitution of the Technical File

· prior to track testing & commissioning:

o reports from bodies (ISA, TSI, NNTRs)

o compliance reports from design houses (against TB4DH) + internal (lab test reports)

· after commissioning

o track test reports

Specific Skills/Tasks

Essential:

• Knowledge and/or experience relating to train carried systems, in particular train control systems & in-cab signalling systems (ETCS / CBTC)
• Previous experience in interacting with assurance bodies (AsBo, NoBo, DeBo, …)
• Previous experience in safety assurance and certification
• Demonstrates customer focus in all work carried out.
• Able to understand and take account of the ‘big picture’ presented by the politics and sensitivities that surround the rail industry
• Experience of working to industry quality and safety standards
• Strong and effective communicator at all levels within the Business and in front of new and existing customers
• Highly motivated, dependable and self-reliant.

Desirable:

• Specific knowledge of railway systems and technologies
• Previous experience in APIS and/or ABIU obtention processes
• Proven track record in working in major Sub-contract environments
• Multi-lingual