UK ETCS On-Board Compliance Engineer

UK ETCS On-Board Compliance Engineer

Derby – Remote working an option

Start – ASAP – 1 year contract

Rate - Negotiable

Role Definition

This exciting role offers an opportunity to provide technical leadership and innovation for our Client with regards to 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.

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:

• unfitted vehicle compliance report
• retrofitted vehicle compliance report
• 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

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.