Ensuring that these systems are safe, reliable and fully compliant with standards is critical to the future business of the company. A Safety Assurance Engineer is required to join the exiting team to support these developments with responsibility for undertaking the production of product safety cases and related material and interaction with regulators and approval bodies.

Essential Requirements:
Degree in computer science, electronic engineering or similar technical engineering based degree;
Membership of professional body (MBCS, MIEE). Likely to be a Chartered Engineer or working towards CEng.
Minimum 5 years experience in safety-critical systems development/assessment;
Good understanding of software and system safety issues;
Knowledge of international standards for safety related programmable systems (e.g EN50128, IEC61508, etc.)
Experience in safety analysis techniques (HAZOPS, FTA, FMEA);
Good team working skills, but able to think independently;
Able to take a proactive role in developing safety programmes;
Good communication skills, both verbal and written;
Able to write complex technical reports with a clear structure and style.
·Knowledge of ERTMS / railway signalling.
·Understanding of software development techniques.

Key Responsibilities:
Writing Safety Management Plans
Chairing HAZOPs type studies
Establishment and Management of Hazard Logs
Hazard analysis, failure mode analysis and of electronics and software intensive systems;
Ensuring compliance with current standards and good practice;
Development of Safety Cases and technical conformance reports;
Interaction with Regulators;
Audit of internal and external suppliers;
The role is likely to involve occasional travel to clients partner companies within Europe and Australia and visits to suppliers.