Rail Systems & Safety Manager

Are you an experienced rail systems and safety professional ready to make a real impact?

We are looking for a Rail Systems and Safety Manager to join our Design & Construction Management team and support it’s commitment to engineering excellence, safety, and compliance across our projects.

In this role, you will provide specialist technical guidance to project teams, ensuring compliance with safety and system engineering regulations.

You’ll be a technical lead and will work closely with external contractors and internal teams to integrate safety throughout the project lifecycle.

This is an exciting time to join one of the largest train operators in the country, managing over 500 train stations. If you’re passionate about improving safety and ready to take on a leadership role, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

Advising project teams to ensure compliance with statutory obligations under the ROGS, CSM-RA, and other relevant regulations.
Providing compliance evidence and working collaboratively with the Assessing Body (AsBo) to achieve required authorisations under ROGS and the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011.
Leading the development and maintenance of CDM compliance strategies and conducting regular audits to ensure all projects meet safety and legal requirements.
Working closely with external contractors, designers, and internal teams to ensure compliance and promote a safe working environment.
Guiding Project Managers when managing the production of safe designs for construction, operation, and maintenance.
Supporting the project teams to undertake site inspections and undertake audits to ensure ongoing compliance with safety standards.
Attending, inputting and where applicable facilitating design development reviews, IDCs, IDRs, HAZIDs to ensure robust risk management process is being adhered to and suitable mitigations identified.

About You:

Demonstrable experience in rail projects with a background in design, safety, or site management.
Experience in Network Rail Design Assurance is essential.
Degree-level qualification in a relevant field (e.g., BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc or similar) and chartered status (or near to achieving) with a recognised institution such as IOSH.
Appreciation of engineering principles in own field (ideally within civil engineering) and experience working in a multidisciplinary environment.
Strong knowledge of CDM, CSM RA, and safety management systems.
NEBOSH Construction Certificate / IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers or equivalent.

What’s in it for you?

we don’t just value our people—we go the extra mile to support them. Here’s a taste of what you can look forward to:

Free Travel: Unlimited free travel for you, your partner, and your dependents on our services. Plus 75% discount on other networks in the UK and Europe.
Generous Pension Scheme: We top up your contributions by 1.5 times.
Enhanced Family Benefits: We offer 9 months of full pay for maternity leave and 2 weeks for paternity leave.
Cycle to Work Scheme: Save up to 42% on a bike and spread the cost.
Holiday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to 5 extra days of annual leave.
Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 support for family, lifestyle, and more.

You can find out more here.

Building an inclusive work environment:

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if you meet the minimum criteria for a job.

Please note that we reserve the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.

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