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Senior Functional Safety Engineer (EN 50126)

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StageDirectory listedStandardsEN 50126 · EN 50128 · EN 50129IndustryRailSenioritySeniorRegionCanadaWork modeHybridSource year2026Role familyProduct safetySegmentRail supplierEmployerEmployer profileToolsIBM DOORS · Isograph / FaultTree+
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Role summary

The organization is now hiring a Senior Safety & RAM Engineer working within a team of professionals working on specific projects or helping to develop our expanding portfolio of projects. This role would be supporting projects across Canada and flexible with a hybrid work model in one our Canadian the organization offices.

Requirements

You are a Safety & RAM professional working for Transportation / Railway Projects. Being a part of the team, you are involved in Project Life Cycle activities & worked closely with Project Engineering (Design and ) Teams, peers & the Customers. You are responsible for establishing and/or maintaining the safety management and engineering processes that will be followed to demonstrate the safety of the system. Using the customer requirements and the country-specific regulations/standards to be applied, you will establish the system requirements with regard to reliability (R), availability (A), maintainability (M) and safety (S) Your role also includes

  • Close coordination with engineering, development, system suppliers, validation, assessors/authorities to ensure that work is performed efficiently
  • demonstration based on EN50129 and system life cycles activities according to EN50126.
  • Documentation for demonstration of overall system performance and agreed safety acceptance criteria.
  • Identification and management of hazards and assessment of the associated risks(Hazard Log management)
  • Conducting Safety Analyses. Support for System Safety Plan, Safety Reports and other safety documents like (FTA), Preliminary (PHA), System / Sub-System Hazard Analysis (SHA / SSHA), Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA), Operational & Support Hazard Analysis (OSHA) and overall Hazard log management.
  • Conducting RAM Analyses. Support for System RAM Plan, RAM Analysis and Prediction, Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis ( / FMECA),Quantitative , RAM Demonstration, FRACAS analysis, Spare calculation.
  • Implementation of quality, configuration, and documentation management directives applicable.
  • Review and validate process and T&C activities from a Safety perspective.
  • Participation in Safety Reviews managed by Quality team.
  • Review for adherence to requirements, e.g., review of system architecture, SRS, other project documents
  • You have degree (Master's/Bachelors) in technical engineering, preferably in electrical/electronic engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • Professional Engineer registration with active membership in a professional engineering society is an advantage
  • Technical knowledge on main subsystems of a railway turnkey project.
  • Experience in reading and understanding technical requirements.
  • Knowledge on standards associated with CEN EN50128, 50129, 50126
  • Experience with ISO/IEC/IEEE-15288 Standard for Systems and Software Engineering processes, and alignment with the Lifecycle
  • Practitioner of ALARP principle.
  • Knowledge on MIL-HDBK-217 FN2 or similar standards
  • Knowledge on MIL-STD-1629A or similar standards
  • Experience with Reliability Analysis tools Isograph Reliability Workbench, ReliaSoft, Item Toolkit,Relex or similar tools
  • Familiar with Configuration tools like DOORS ClearQuest, Livelink, Citrix Application.

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

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