Senior Consultant Systems Safety Assurance

Hybrid, United Kingdom

Country:  UK

Field:  Engineering

Location:  Hybrid, United Kingdom

Type of Contract:  Permanent

Level of experience: 5 - 10 years however, candidates with all levels of experience are welcome to apply.

Reporting to the Technical Director; This role provides a fantastic career opportunity, whilst developing your skills and experience under the guidance and mentorship of our senior team. You will be able to work across a range of activities at various stages of the systems engineering lifecycle. You will thrive on doing something different every day and be comfortable with ambiguity. You will have a strong desire to learn new things. You will be a good communicator at all levels, able to understand and decompose complexity and present it in simple terms. 

The role:

  • Provide a range of technical consulting services and innovative solutions to clients across the Systems Safety Assurance Engineering discipline
  • Providing safety advice across the full systems engineering lifecycle, from requirements definition through to commissioning of safety critical and high reliability systems, including,
    • Interpreting and applying relevant standards in engineering delivery projects (e.g., AREMA, CSM-RA, CENELEC, ISO/IEC, IEEE)
    • Independently perform the Validator Role as per CENELEC EN5012x for HKRP projects
  • Support and lead tender submissions in conjunction with internal stakeholders whilst identifying commercial opportunities with clients
  • Provide continual subject matter expertise to ensure exceptional client relationships are maintained.

Providing Consultancy Services in Transportation, Utilities & Energy and Defence & Security sectors throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, HKRP is a progressive and flexible company, offering the opportunity to work from home, business needs permitting. Travel may be required to project and client offices with occasional overnight stays or longer-term secondments. This may include opportunities for working overseas.

Experience & skills:

Qualifications:   

  • A minimum of a technical Degree, equivalent qualification or experience Corporate membership with an appropriate professional institution (e.g. INCOSE, SaRS, IET, IMechE).
  • Professional qualified or working towards professional qualification (e.g. IEng/CEng)
  • INCOSE recognised status, e.g. Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

Experience:

  • Broad experience of Systems Safety Assurance activities in a complex, safety focussed and regulated organisation with multiple complex interfaces. Ideally in rail (e.g. heavy, metro or light) or a similar regulated environment (e.g. aerospace or nuclear)
  • Comfortable with, and demonstrable experience of, resolving ambiguity in task, system safety and safety requirements definition
  • Able to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders
  • Delivery focussed with an enthusiasm to make a positive difference
  • Demonstrable experience of change management, rapidly adapting to emerging requirements, changing circumstances and high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity in a fast-changing environment
  • Formal Project Management experience.

Skills: 

  • Significant experience in applying safety in design and system safety assurance practices and processes in line with CMS-RA, CENELEC EN5012x and ISO15288
  • Knowledge of systems engineering, human factors, resilience engineering and/or asset management, including,
    • Requirements capture, analysis and management
    • Verification and validation
    • Interface identification, control, and management
    • Systems architecture development
    • Systems migration planning
    • MBSE tools, such as SPARX Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeler ™, IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Architect, Capella or other similar.