Job Title: Conformance Engineer
Location: Milton Keynes (Can be remote with occasional site visits)
Contract Duration : 6 Months with a view to extending
Daily Rate : £500/day (Umbrella Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Minimum Requirement:
Rail Vehicle Engineering (including Electrical & Mechanical Systems Interfaces with Infrastructure)
Experience working with loading units (Intermodal load units - ILUs)
Vehicles assessment and certification
Rail vehicles maintenance and audits
The Role:
The Conformance Engineer will carry out the conformance assessment of new or modified RAIL infrastructure, RAIL vehicles, load units and associated equipment with mandatory standards and deliver associated safety management activities.
They will assess the conformance of designs for new or modified infrastructure, RAIL vehicles, load units and associated equipment against mandatory requirements and prepare assessment reports and certification.
They will carry out audits of clients as part of providing assurance or certification of their activities, and view changes to standards as directed and produce guidance documents on conformance assessment and associated activities.
They will assess amended or new maintenance plans to confirm whether they will, if adhered to, keep the subsystem compliant with mandatory requirements for their whole life along with checking the construction of RAIL vehicles, load units, infrastructure subsystems and associated equipment for conformance with the accepted design, including witnessing testing. They will prepare submissions to external approval bodies on behalf of customers.
Other responsibilities include providing advice to customers and stakeholders on conformance assessment, certification and associated regulations (such as Interoperability, Common Safety Methods and Entities in Charge of Maintenance) and carrying out technical investigations, as required, checking that they do not compromise certification independence
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181
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