Rail Systems Manager

Location - Newcastle Upon Tyne

We are currently looking for a Rail Systems Manager for a new purpose-built depot, which represents an investment of £70 million, will be used for the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains set to enter passenger service from 2023. The depot will be designed to ensure maximum availability and reliability of the fleet, will vastly improve the working environment and become home to a wide range of activities, including preventative and corrective maintenance, overhauls and train presentation.

Requisites
Specification, design and implementation of railway systems preferably gained on mainline railways.

• Delivery and assurance of integrated safety critical solutions within large scale and technically complex projects.
• Analysis of complex data, drawing effective conclusions and rapidly producing solutions and decisions.
• Excellent communication with the ability to promote and execute Technical Strategy and Plans.
• System Integration, Interface Management, Specification, System Acceptance of same and associated approaches and techniques.
• Innovation and change management, including best practice continuous improvement methodologies.
• Risk management and control and best practice architecture and requirements management tools and methodologies.
• Experience in Track is a must
• Knowledge of Eurocodes and British Standards,
• Rail System Engineering knowledge including requirements specification and management
• Customer Focus - demonstrated by successful project delivery to a rail client
• Broad experience of specifying and implementing railway systems on a major programme working as part of a regulated organisation with multiple complex interfaces.
• Experience of applying the engineering lifecycle including requirements, specification, design, build and maintenance and verification and validation in relation to your specialism.
• Extensive experience of railway systems specification and design, including interface definition and management and control of same on a multi-disciplinary programme.
• Detailed understanding of at least one railway system, what its critical dependencies and interfaces are (including operational ones) and how this should be managed and controlled on a safety critical programme.
• Excellent experience of engaging with peers and stakeholders on your specialism.
• Working within relevant UK rail industry legislation and standards.
• Relevant experience in delivering rail projects for UK or Europe rail clients.

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