Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance Engineer (SESA)

About the role

Aurecon's Transport & Infrastructure team in New South Wales is recruiting a Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance (SESA) Engineer. You will work on NSW's critical rail, transport and infrastructure projects, helping shape solutions for clients and communities. The role spans systems engineering, safety assurance and risk management, working across disciplines.

Key responsibilities

• Lead or support the development of Systems Engineering Management Plans, Requirements Management Plans and Systems Safety Assurance Management Plans.
• Manage contract and technical requirements across the system life cycle, including specification, decomposition, allocation, traceability and verification, and the requirements verification traceability matrix (RVTM).
• Develop interface registers and interface control documents (ICDs) across disciplines.
• Prepare Safety in Design (SiD) briefs and reports, and lead or support SiD and hazard identification workshops across the asset life cycle.
• Maintain the project hazard log, integrate RAM and human factors analysis, and show that risks are eliminated or minimised as far as reasonably practicable (SFAIRP).
• Manage concessions and nonconformances to TfNSW and Australian standards, working with design teams on their technical and safety impacts.
• Develop safety assurance reports, compile evidence for review gate submissions and hand over residual risks to operators and maintainers.
• Work with the client, independent safety assessor and independent certifier to close out comments and achieve project acceptance.

Required profile

• 3-8 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Safety Assurance or RAMS, ideally on major rail or transport projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering accredited by Engineers Australia or equivalent, with CPEng status or working towards chartership.
• Australian working rights; some projects may require Australian citizenship or the ability to obtain security clearance.
• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification, experience with rolling stock or rail systems, or a Rail Industry Worker (RIW) card (or the ability to obtain one) is highly advantageous.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, EN 50126, TfNSW standards (TS 01471 and TS 04981) and the duty to manage risks under the Rail Safety National Law and WHS Act.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS Next or similar.