Safety and Assurance Manager

The Metro team is a new team dedicated to ensuring our delivery partners design, construct, operate and maintain an expanding West Midlands Metro. The Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) Metro comprises a dedicated team of engineering, operations and asset management specialists who have responsibility for the West Midlands Metro asset on behalf of West Midlands Combined Authority.Working in close collaboration with Midland Metro Alliance (MMA) and Midland Metro Limited (MML), our team is committed to developing, designing, and constructing extensions across the region and ensuring the West Midlands Metro asset is managed correctly and maintenance activities undertaken to the required standard. Our mission is to contribute to creating a happier, healthier, and more connected West Midlands.
Our Metro team is seeking an experienced Safety and Assurance Manager to establish and deliver robust monitoring arrangements of MML as operator and maintainer of the West Midlands Metro asset. You will also ensure our delivery partner the MMA and others are delivering design and construction activities in a safe manner and that safe by design is embedded in their activities. In this role, you will take charge of managing and continuously updating our Safety Management System relevant to Metro, ensuring full compliance with legislation, including The Railway and Other Guided Transport Sy...