System Safety Engineer

Purpose of the Job

Carry out Engineering Safety Management activities for Stations, Shafts and Portals and

Railway Systems in providing oversight to ensure that Safety Engineering on the Project is

conducted in a manner that is compliant to the latest applicable requirements of UK Law and good

practice, in order to achieve a level of risk that is acceptable.

Principal Accountabilities

• Reports to the Head of System Safety and Interoperability and carries out Engineering Safety

Management activities for Stations, Shafts and Portals and Railway Systems across the

Central Operating Section as required

• Develop strong, well defined interfaces with interoperability and authorisation activities being

managed by the Interoperability Manager (via the NoBo and AsBo)

• Develop strong, well defined interfaces with Assessment Body (AsBo) activities being

assessed under Common Safety Method (CSM) to ensure we is legally compliant and in

good position to obtain a favourable Safety Assessment Report from the AsBo

• Provide the contribution of the Stations, Shafts and Portals Safety and Railway Systems

Justifications and interfaces with other elements

• Checking that the Contractor’s System Safety Plans are are compliant to applicable Railway

Regulations, with regard to safety engineering, to London Underground, Railway Group

Standards, European/UK Standards, Common Safety Methods, Yellow Book and Technical

Specifications for Interoperability

• Maintaining, with engineering teams, the processes and controls for safety engineering and

safety assurance activities as part of the project lifecycle

• Interfacing with project teams and providing assistance on Safety Assurance & Safety

Engineering issues

• Liaising with contractors in relation to system safety engineering, review and acceptance of

contractor performance with regard to safety engineering. Review and acceptance of

contractor deliverables with regard to safety engineering

• Day to day management of and conducting safety engineering and safety assurance activities
• Managing and establishing activities required to check that the integrated system is safe.

Undertaking Safety Engineering activities as described by Common Safety Methods, Yellow

Book, EN50126, EN50128, EN50129 and IEC 61508

• Assessing the impact on safety due to change in requirements, design or legislations.
• Representing Safety Engineering discipline for Stations Shafts and Portals on:

1. Hazard Review Panel
2. Gate reviews

iii. RAB-C and other panels and groups as appropriate

• Take reasonable care of your own and others’ health and safety and of those who may be

affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to Target Zero principles

• Co-operate in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe

working procedures at all times

• Act as a role model for vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment

with Ways of Working. Encourage and support others to do so too

• Promote equality in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with

colleagues

• Take necessary care to properly protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of

corporate information from unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction. Never

knowingly put information or information systems at risk

Main challenges of the job

To support the Head of System Safety and Interoperability in:

• Checking that the project meets it legal requirements under UK law i.e. the risk

associated with the system delivered is acceptable

• Directing and prioritising ESM work to support programme deliverables and assurance

requirements of the company, the Operators and the ORR

• Checking that the system is engineered to be safe