Job Description
Systems Safety Assurance role to work one of the latest transit infrastructure projects in the Toronto area.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for leading safety assurance for the various projects, ensuring the project are compliant with relevant international safety and technical standards such EN50126, EN50129 or IEC 61508, CSM-RA, CMREA.
- Accountable for reporting on progress, managing staff competence and development, delivery of and maintain an internal audit schedule ensuring projects are following governance.
- Coordinates the safety studies carried out through the life cycle of the process to ensure that safety requirements are met.
- Manage, perform, and ensure the activities related to safety assurance are applied in the projects.
- Manage Hazard Log, review RAM, V&V, T&C activities from a Safety perspective.
- Manage creation of and approve the Safety Reports and the Safety Case.
- Prepare technical reports for submission to the management, clients, and the regulatory authorities.
- Lead safety engineering activities for a wide range of rolling stock, signaling and infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with the relevant standards.
- Responsible for the facilitation of HAZOP / HAZID workshops and being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up the workshops.
- Manage risk assessments for specific discipline areas, being able to self-sufficiently plan, run and write up risk workshops.
- Has a working knowledge of Safety Methods: Safety Plan, Preliminary Hazard Analysis PHA, Failure Modes and Effects Critical Analysis FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis FTA, Interface Hazard Analysis IHA, Operation & Support Hazard Analysis OSHA, Safety related Item List SRIL, Hazard Log HL, V&V Safety Report, and Safety Case.
- Undertakes technical analyses and reviews of Engineering Safety Management documentation and project assurance deliverables.
- Fosters a safety culture and is seen as a safety role model on the project.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or all other equivalent training.
- 5-10 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant safety designations an asset.
- High degree of technical proficiency in dealing with all safety related aspects of large scale and complex Railway projects, involving multiple players.
- Strong knowledge in the modern Railway projects, including various components/systems that these projects are made of.
- Expertise in application of safety standards such as technical standards such EN50126, EN50129 or IEC 61508, CSM-RA, CMREA.
- Expertise in crating a Hazard Log, FMECA, FTA, IHA, OSHA, etc.
- Knowledge of design and construction management aspects of Railway Projects.
- Excellent communication skills, the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders.
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