Compliance Manager

Role: Compliance Manager
Location: Derby
Pay Rate: £350 - £450 per day

This exciting role offers an opportunity to provide technical leadership and innovation with regards to compliance in the context of an ETCS on-board retrofit project.

Working as part of a close knit team, the Compliance Manager shall be the referent on compliance for the UK specific application of a ETCS On-Board retrofit project. The Compliance Engineer will report to the Approvals Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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)
• Produce compliance reports
• Unfitted vehicle compliance report
• Retrofitted vehicle compliance report
• 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

REQUIREMENTS:

• 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.

DESIRABLE:

• Specific knowledge of railway systems and technologies
• Previous experience in APIS and/or ABIU obtention processes
• Proven track record in working in major Sub-contract environments
• Multi-lingual