Rail Vehicle Conformance Engineer (Hybrid / Remote)

The Conformance Engineer will carry out the conformance assessment of new or modified Rail infrastructure, Rail vehicles, load units and associated equipment with mandatory standards and deliver associated safety management activities.

You will carry out audits of clients as part of providing assurance or certification of their activities, and view changes to standards as directed and produce guidance documents on conformance assessment and associated activities.

You will assess amended or new maintenance plans to confirm whether they will, if adhered to, keep the subsystem compliant with mandatory requirements for their whole life along with checking the construction of Rail vehicles, load units, infrastructure subsystems and associated equipment for conformance with the accepted design, including witnessing testing. They will prepare submissions to external approval bodies on behalf of customers.

Other responsibilities include providing advice to customers and stakeholders on conformance assessment, certification and associated regulations (such as Interoperability, Common Safety Methods and Entities in Charge of Maintenance) and carrying out technical investigations, as required, checking that they do not compromise certification independence.

The Hiring Manager is looking for a contractor with the following experience:

• Rail Vehicle Engineering (including Electrical & Mechanical Systems Interfaces with Infrastructure)
• Experience working with loading units (Intermodal load units - ILUs)
• Vehicles assessment and certification
• Rail vehicles maintenance and audits

“At NCB we do work in the context of the common safety methods for risk evaluation and assessments Regulation (CSM_REA) and also works around the Interoperability Regulations (RIR2012)”