Current Vacancies

• Supporting railway systems engineering assignments; for example designing a system-level re-signalling scheme.
• Supporting Notified Body assignments with signalling expertise.
• Supporting independent safety assessment assignments with signalling expertise; e.g. assessing a defined re-signalling scheme for risks (safety, technical and performance).
• Carrying out Notified Body assessments in the command, control and signalling domain of European rail applications.
• Contributing to technical content, for sales proposals.
• Being an active member of the Altran Praxis railway community, sharing best-practice and contributing to Altran Praxis’ capabilities in this area.
• Acting as an advocate for Altran Praxis within the national and international railway communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Contributing to technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Contributing to direction for Altran Praxis’ railway offering consistent with that of Altran Praxis’ overall engineering strategy.

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline – or significant industrial experience.
• A further degree (egg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Consistent in-service training demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.
• Membership of the Institute of Railway Signalling Engineers.

• Candidates should have experience at the signalling systems level (including complex re-signalling schemes).
• Experience with both main line and metro systems.
• Experience of safety assessment in the signalling domain is of particular interest.

• The candidate will want to build on detailed knowledge attained through their signalling career to contribute to safety on main line and metro railway systems.
• Knowledge of scheme design and development, detailed design and/or data preparation.
• Broad knowledge of signalling systems and applications within these environments egg various interlocking and trackside equipment types, knowledge of UNISIG supplier equipment will be useful.
• Knowledge of ERTMS, systems, their development, and their application.
• Knowledge of ATO and ATP systems and application.
• Cross-discipline understanding of all areas interfacing with signalling, egg EMC, human factors, power, etc.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focused and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An understanding of the technical and commercial issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Altran Praxis staff, both in Altran Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.

• Responsibility for the safety aspects of safety-related engineering development and consultancy projects.
• Responsibility for the safety aspects of independent audit and assessment projects.
• To support the development and maintenance of the Altran Praxis Safety Management System.
• To implement safety incident management and learning issues.
• To implement appropriate training and awareness for safety.
• To provide appropriate support to safety-related projects.
• To provide independent review of safety-related deliverables which give an opinion on safety, providing safety assurance to the project.
• To provide general advice on safety to staff.
• To provide sales support to Business Managers in the winning of safety projects.

• Ensuring that projects produce and maintain a safety plan including selection of an appropriate safety lifecycle model, associated safety engineering or assessment activities, safety assurance measures and techniques, and definition of the project organisation structure.
• Providing advice to staff on functional safety such that a consistent approach to functional safety is achieved.
• Ensuring that projects apply safety practices using technologies appropriate to the applications.
• Ensuring that any project safety concerns are investigated and necessary actions taken.
• Ensuring that all staff involved within a safety-related project are competent to execute their assigned tasks.
• Likely to be involved in the recruitment of safety engineers/ consultants.
• Monitoring the safety engineering activities on projects to ensure the correct application of the safety plan.
• Ensuring that projects collect evidence that the safety tasks have been adequately executed in order to construct a reasoned argument (eg for use in a safety case).
• Ensuring that projects meet the requirements of the relevant safety regulations, standards and legislation.
• Ensuring that projects apply the Altran Praxis SMS.
• Setting the technical and safety strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Independently reviewing sales proposals for safety engineering or safety assessment projects.
• Being an active member of the Praxis safety community, sharing best-practice and contributing to Praxis’ capabilities in this area.
• Acting as an advocate for Praxis within the national and international safety communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Ensuring that projects conform to the Praxis Safety Management System, industry best practice and addresses existing and emerging codes of professional conduct, legislation, and national and international standards.
• Support Altran Praxis maintain any relevant industry safety accreditation for its safety engineers and safety assessors.

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline – or significant industrial experience A further degree (eg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution with chartered status or equivalent experience.

• Candidates are likely to have at least ten years working in a relevant discipline or industry sector – either directly within industry, or an academic or consulting environment.
• Likely to be known within the critical systems arena as a recognised expert.
• Relevant sectors are civil and military aerospace, air traffic management, nuclear, mainline and rail.
• Relevant disciplines are systems, software, and hardware typically for large-scale or complex engineering endevours.
• Experience in safety assessment and auditing.

• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory regimes and the national/international standards appropriate to that regime.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of safety engineering or safety management in a complex systems environment, with a likely bias to embedded programmable systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of functional safety assurance (including: hazards, risks, tolerability, ALARP, safety requirements, etc.)
• Knowledge and understanding of functional safety practices, including application and technologies appropriate to the Company and relevant industry sectors.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Highly customer-focussed and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An understanding of the technical and commercial issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Praxis staff, both in Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.
• The ability to mentor and develop others.

• To participate in the design, implementation, test maintenance and documentation of the single components of a product.
• To participate in peer review of other engineer’s work.
• To undertake tests for the single component.
• To provide support for PR resolution.
• To support the test team.
• To participate in Quality Continuous improvements.

• Adhering to software development plans, typically reflecting rigorous and disciplined development processes and Quality Systems.
• Developing detailed designs.
• Implementing designs.
• Developing test environments.
• Developing and executing test specifications.
• Being a member of the Altran Praxis software community and sharing best practice and contributing to capabilities in this area.

• A Masters Degree (Bac +5).
• Consistent in-service training, demonstrating a professional approach to the maintenance of skills.

• Candidates are likely to have experience working in a relevant discipline or industry sector.
• Experience using an object-oriented programming language and UML design.
• Experience in development methods and is likely to have met rigorous or disciplined development processes.

• Must have high level of written and spoken English (essential for writing and reading documents).
• Must be able to act autonomously following specific instructions and escalating to a higher level in the project team.
• Must be able to work and thrive in a team environment.

• To create test cases and test designs from system specifications.
• To create, run and report on test scripts created from test designs.

• To create test cases and test designs from system specifications.
• To create test scripts from test designs.
• To update and debug test scripts (e.g. in response to system specification changes).
• To execute and report on the tests.
• Assess and effectively communicate status of all assigned tasks.
• Identify and communicate risks, issues and potential improvements appropriately.
• Communicate with internal Software Development and Test organisations at a technical level to coordinate and resolve issues as appropriate.
• Flexibility is expected in order to meet the dependencies of internal and external customers.
• Ability to plan, schedule and monitor own work, and ability to deliver against schedules - either self-defined or set by a manager.
• Assignments are commercially sensitive. Staff are expected to work to NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and best practice with regards to sensitive information.

• Computer Science
• Maths grad turned Software Engineer or other relevant (Engineering) degree (e.g. Electronics).
• 1-3 years industrial experience.
• Evidence of in-service training/self-learning demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.

• At least 1 year experience of software engineering.
• Experience of safety related projects is desirable (and/or those involving rigorous or disciplined development processes).
• Candidates are likely to have worked on various test activities.
• Strong mathematics background.

• The desire to take ownership, work independently with minimal direction, and meet deadlines.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of software engineering for complex embedded systems.
• Ability to read Z or other formal method (otherwise, training will be provided); numeracy.
• Knowledge of scripting languages.
• A willingness to learn new tools, techniques, and languages.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Ability to communicate effectively using oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Altran Praxis staff, across multiple international sites.

• Software configuration management.
• Software compilation and build.
• Software release.
• Coordination with internal and external customers, Process improvement.

• Operate software CM, build and release procedures as directed by Work Package Manager. High accuracy and attention to detail is required.
• Produce and maintain procedure documents.
• Assess and effectively communicate status of all assigned tasks.
• Identify and communicate risks, issues and potential improvements appropriately.
• Implement process improvements as directed.
• Communicate with internal Software Development and Test organisations at a technical level to coordinate and resolve issues as appropriate.
• Communicate with external customers at a technical level to ensure on time delivery of appropriate software releases.
• Flexibility is expected in order to meet the dependencies of internal and external customers.
• Ability to plan, schedule and monitor own work, and ability to deliver against schedules - either self-defined or set by a manager.
• Assignments are commercially sensitive.
• Staff are expected to work to NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and best practice with regards to sensitive information.

• Computer Science.
• Maths grad turned Software Engineer + other relevant (Engineering) degree (eg Electronics) Evidence of in-service training/self-learning demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.

• At least 1 year experience of software engineering. Experience of safety related projects is desirable.
• Experience of Ada, C, Korn Shell and Python is highly desirable.
• It is essential to have experience of operating well defined engineering processes. Experience in maintaining, improving and developing engineering processes is desirable.
• Experience of SW configuration management tools is essential. Experience with the Subversion or CVS tools is desirable.
• It is essential to have experience of the software configuration process. It is highly desirable to have experience of configuration management, build and release of large SW systems.
• Experience of exposure to and dealing with multiple customers at a technical level is desirable.

• Software engineering in one or more high level software language.
• Understanding of the software compilation and build process.
• Understanding of software configuration management on multiple baselines.
• Ability to take direction, attention to detail, ability to operate engineering processes accurately, ability to identify improvements, risks and issues, ability to work to challenging deadlines.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of software engineering for complex embedded systems – in particular the role of static analysis.
• A willingness to learn new tools, techniques, and languages.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focused and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Altran Praxis staff, across multiple international sites.

• In novel and complex software engineering, Altran Praxis is recognised by the SEI (Software Engineering Institute) as achieving results which are better than CMM Level 5 and therefore delivering software which is virtually defect free.
• In safety engineering, Altran Praxis provides novel and complex systems, often using leading edge techniques. Praxis has pioneered the use of methods such as electronic safety cases and the use of Goal Structured Notation to deliver more effective and efficient safety approvals.

The technical abilities and pedigree for safety services at Altran Praxis have been developed over 30 years, servicing numerous High-Tech industries including Aerospace, Air Traffic Control, Defence, Nuclear and Rail. This expertise is recognised and used by the regulators in all these safety conscious industries.

Expansion in the nuclear division has led to requirements for new positions including one of ‘Technical Lead’. This challenging supervisory role will provide leadership to a dynamic group of safety engineers. The main duties and responsibilities of this position are described below.

• To provide leadership in the development of effective and novel approaches to safety engineering and management that increases the value of Altran Praxis' services, particularly in the nuclear market.
• To deliver leading-edge safety solutions to clients in the nuclear industry.
• To provide sales support to Business Managers in the winning of safety-related projects within those industries.
• Providing nuclear knowledge and expertise for sales and project contexts.
• To provide peer review of the work of other safety engineers’ work.

• The role will cover all aspects of the safety life-cycle, and, subject to competency and experience (less experience would indicate less coverage or less autonomy), could include any or all of the following:
• Writing safety plans.
• Chairing and minuting HAZOPs.
• Developing safety targets and apportioning those targets across a system.
• Developing hazard logs.
• Identifying and interpreting SILs.
• Developing and authoring safety requirements.
• Performing causal and consequence analysis with, for example FTA, FMEA, event tree analysis, etc.
• Constructing innovative and compelling safety arguments.
• Authoring safety cases.
• Working on independent safety assessment assignments.
• Developing and presenting training material on safety-related topics.
• Being an active member of the Altran Praxis safety community, sharing best-practice and contributing to its’ capabilities in this area.

• Acting as an advocate for Altran Praxis within the national and international safety communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Setting technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Setting direction for Altran Praxis’ safety offering consistent with that of Altran Praxis’ overall engineering strategy.

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline – or significant industrial experience.
• A further degree (eg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Consistent in-service training demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.
• At the very least a clearly defined route through to chartered status, and for principal staff membership of a relevant professional institution with chartered status.

• Candidates are likely to have experience working in a relevant discipline or industry sector – either directly within industry, or an academic or consulting environment.
• Relevant sectors are civil and military aerospace, air traffic management, nuclear, mainline and underground rail.
• Relevant disciplines are systems, software, and hardware typically for large-scale or complex engineering endeavours.

• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory regimes and the national/international standards appropriate to that regime.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of safety engineering or safety management in a complex systems environment, with a likely bias to embedded programmable systems.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focused and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An understanding of the technical and commercial issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses.

• Supporting railway systems engineering assignments; for example designing a system-level re-signalling scheme.
• Supporting Notified Body assignments with signalling expertise.
• Supporting independent safety assessment assignments with signalling expertise; eg assessing a defined re-signalling scheme for risks (safety, technical and performance).
• Carrying out Notified Body assessments in the command, control and signaling domain of European rail applications.
• Contributing to technical content, for sales proposals.
• Being an active member of the Praxis railway community, sharing best-practice and contributing to Praxis’ capabilities in this area.
• Acting as an advocate for Praxis within the national and international railway communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Contributing to technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Contributing to direction for Praxis’ railway offering consistent with that of Praxis’ overall engineering strategy.

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline – or significant industrial experience.
• A further degree (eg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Consistent in-service training demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.
Membership of the Institute of Railway Signalling Engineers.

• French signalling rules knowledge and general French railway safety experience.
• Candidates should have experience at the signalling systems level (including complex re-signalling schemes).
• Experience with both main line and metro systems.
• Experience of safety assessment in the signalling domain is of particular interest.

• The candidate will want to build on detailed knowledge attained through their signaling career to contribute to safety on main line and metro railway systems.
• Knowledge of scheme design and development, detailed design and/or data preparation.
• Broad knowledge of signalling systems and applications within these environments eg various interlocking and trackside equipment types, knowledge of UNISIG supplier equipment will be useful.
• Knowledge of ERTMS, systems, their development, and their application.
• Knowledge of ATO and ATP systems and application.
• Cross-discipline understanding of all areas interfacing with signalling, eg EMC, human factors, power, etc.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focused and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An understanding of the technical and commercial issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Praxis staff, both in Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.
• The ability to mentor and develop others.