Senior or Principal Systems Safety / RAM Engineer

Croydon, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom / Glasgow, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Birmingham, United KingdomWe’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.About the business unitWe help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. Due to continued growth, the Systems Engineering and Assurance team are recruiting a Principal / Senior Systems Safety Engineer/RAM Engineer to join a friendly and dynamic team focussed on delivering systems safety and RAMS assurance services to infrastructure, energy, and technology projects.Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Planning and Analysis• Systems Safety Planning and Management• Safety Case Development.The Senior or Principal Systems Safety/RAMS Engineer will collaborate with experienced professionals within multi-disciplinary teams and will gain experience of using industry standard toolsets on a range of challenging and dynamic projects. In addition to the delivery of project work, you will be expected to work on bids and proposals and undertake line managerial role for our Early Career Professionals (ECP).Due to the nature of our business, you will be willing to travel for projects when required, such as visits on-site. As part of the Systems Engineering and Assurance team you will be working on projects in the UK but may also become involved in international projects.Develop Systems Safety Plan (SSP) and RAM (Reliability Availability Maintainability) Plan in accordance with the industry best practice and international standards.• Define, maintain, and implement the systems safety and RAM activities and deliverables within a project such as Hazard Identification (HazID) facilitation, Hazard Record Management, Failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA)• Obtain agreement of the SSP and RAM Plan with clients and contractors. Where required, support the contractors to develop plans to capture their obligations for Systems Safety and RAM.• Establish methodologies and processes (including software as required) to facilitate Systems Safety and RAM Management, for example the use of ComplyPro and Isograph Reliability and Availability Workbench.• Establish the resource requirements to deliver the Systems Safety and RAM activities, including providing leadership and mentoring as appropriate.• Coordinate the Systems Safety and RAM activities in line with the Project/Programme Management Plan.• Cascade the obligations of all key roles defined in the SSP and RAM Plan to those resources, to embed the Systems Safety and RAM into the project delivery.• Provide technical leadership to the functional and project teams for System Safety and RAM.• Responsible for aligning System Safety Management and RAM Management with Technical Assurance (system engineering lifecycle and milestone deliverables).• Provide technical leadership for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Determination and SIL Validation to relevant industry standards (BS EN 61508, EN 50126, EN 50128)You will have a degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject and you will have experience in Systems Safety Management and RAM, and associated processes/lifecycles along with deep understanding of the Common Safety Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA), BS EN 50126 and other rail industry and CENELEC standards.You will have some experience in project and commercial management with a consultancy, and will be a member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity, and inclusionWe put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.Pension matched up to 7%Life insuranceContinuous development opportunities – because we want you to thriveAgile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care giversFlexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work and interest free season ticket loansWellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resourcesAccess to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities