Technical Assurance Engineer

Technical Assurance Engineer

We are recruiting for a Technical Assurance Manager to join the HS2 Track infrastructure project at the initial design phase which will run concurrently with the completion of main works contracts, which are now at their peak. The team operate under a collaborative Rail Systems Alliance structure, designed to manage interfaces and resolve any program conflicts. The members will work together on design, access, resources, and logistics to achieve shared goals for cost and schedule.

Work location:

Based either London or Birmingham.

Management Responsibility:
The Technical Assurance (TA) team are responsible for supporting FBRS’s design delivery by capturing, developing and demonstrating compliance to requirements, facilitating configuration and technical change management, and managing technical assurance activities to achieve self-assured delivery of the project.

Key responsibilities

* The Technical Assurance Manager has overall responsibility for the preparation, implementation and maintenance of the Requirements and Assurance Management Plan (RAMP) and the implementation of the processes and procedures identified therein to deliver technical self-assurance at each HS2 Technical Lifecycle Stage

* The Technical Assurance Manager establishes and maintains the Contractor’s Technical Requirements Baseline, which captures all the input requirements necessary to ensure that the Contractor’s design is produced in accordance with the Works Information, applicable standards, statutory obligations, etc. Manage the identification and decomposition of new and existing requirements.

* Develop a plan, working in coordination FBRS design delivery management and the supply chain, that demonstrates that FBRS, as the first line of defence, has progressively delivered a fully technically assured, self-certified product that: is safe to build, operate and maintain; meets the requirements of HS2 Ltd as defined in the HS2 TAP; is fully integrated; is compliant with the required standards and regulations;

has been duly coordinated with the relevant stakeholders; has been verified and validated throughout all technical lifecycle stages; and is robustly evidenced.

* Ensure that sound engineering and V&V result in the production of the integrated evidence, integrating the artifacts from the supply chain, that assures all the stakeholders that the project is on track and will deliver what has been requested.

* Ensures efficient processes and operations to evidence technical requirements, ensuring close coordination with the rest of the FBRS IM and Design Management team to contribute to a timely delivery of the designs in an efficient manner. Promotes streamline processes to achieve these goals.

* Ensures identification of those requirements under the contract that imply achieving specified functions and standards of performance and/or outputs and establishes appropriate specific measures to ensure a robust plan for managing and evidencing them. Monitors the delivery of those requirements including its evidencing and works with design delivery management to identify and establish a plan to manage residual risks.

* Ensure that the assurance evidence is progressively delivered through each project lifecycle. Progressive Assurance is the method used to mitigate the (unacceptable) risk of protracted approval that will delay the acceptance of the works.

* Also ensures there is a process in place to manage Undertaking & Assurances (U&As) within the Design team, and to interface with others in FBRS which are in charge of U&As. Monitors the delivery to the process.

* Ensures there is a process in place for Departures and supports its management (in liaison with Design delivery) as required.

* Facilitates the register and the process for management of variations to the Technical Standards Baseline.

Management of subordinate roles

* Deputy Technical Assurance Lead

* Functional management of Technical Assurance Engineers within FBRS design delivery teams

Programme and Information coordination

* The Technical Assurance Manager shall take an active role in the planning, co-ordination, and submission of all technical…