Company: AECOM
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Job Description:
Overview
As Associate Director, you lead System Safety & Interoperability for UK & Ireland, shaping a resilient safety capability across major rail projects. You provide senior technical leadership, assurance, and stakeholder engagement to meet regulatory and safety requirements. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure coherent safety verification and compliance across complex programmes. This role offers impact at scale within a global infrastructure firm and a mission to enable safe, efficient rail systems. You will drive strategic capability development and ensure delivery excellence in safety and interoperability.
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid work options
- onboarding Day 1
- well-being programs
- global firm benefits
- flexible and transformational work
- industry-leading technology and thinking
Responsibilities
- Act as Subject Matter Expert for railway System Safety and Safety Assurance
- Lead and assure System Safety application across major projects and programmes
- Provide senior technical leadership for interoperability and railway authorisation
- Lead Interoperability, Compliance and Authorisation Strategies
- Provide leadership on RIR, NTSNs, NTRs and ORR authorisation in Great Britain
- Develop System Safety & Interoperability capability plan aligned with SESA strategy
- Collaborate with Systems Engineering and RAMS leads to ensure coherent safety verification
- Lead complex System Safety and Interoperability commissions and manage scope, quality, resources and commercial performance
Key requirements
- Significant railway System Safety/Safety Assurance experience
- Strong CSM experience
- Hazard management and safety justification
- Interoperability/authorisation experience
- GB and/or Irish/European railway regulatory knowledge
- Independent assessment engagement
- Multidisciplinary rail programme experience
- Commercial and bid experience
- leadership
- stakeholder collaboration
- communication
- System Safety
- Safety Assurance
- Interoperability
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Posted: October 1st, 2026