Responsibilities

Coordinate software safety activities throughout entire system lifecycle;
Perform hazard identification studies (HAZID, HAZOP), hazard analyses (PHA, SHA, HAZID, FTA, FHA) and safety analyses (FFMEA, FMECA, FSA);
Define software safety requirements, including Software Safety Integrity Levels (SSIL);
Analyze and evaluate design compliance with safety requirements and safety principles;
Identify and record hazards in Hazard Log, assess safety risks, review hazard mitigations, evaluate the design and track hazard status throughout close-out process;
Review the adequacy and completeness of the safety evidence, including test and verification reports, and produce the Safety Case;
Work as part of integrated project team and promote company's safety policy and best practices;
Recognize opportunities for, and encourage, cross-use and cross-acceptance of safety certifications and Safety Cases;
Represent Safety in technical meetings involving safety-related issues. Participate in, influence, and approve design decisions impacting or potentially impacting safety;
Exercise safety leadership on the product and/or project, and is accountable for the technical safety of the train control system;
Prepares safety requirement specifications by analyzing and decomposing customer safety requirements;
Perform technical trade off evaluations to identify the system safety engineering design choices with associated advantages and disadvantages;
Review and approve the Hazard Log and associated hazard analyses;
Identify and anticipate risks and opportunities, and propose mitigation actions;
Prepares technical proposals, reports, presentations, change evaluations and responses to customer requests. Provides technical Bids and Proposals support as assigned;
Works with customers and Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) to achieve safety approval and acceptance of the train control system;
Defines processes and best practices covering the entire safety activities and system lifecycle;
Trains, leads and supervises junior members of the RAMS Engineering team;
Supervise other Safety Specialists and consultants by defining their work, methodology and approach, monitoring their progress, and directing them on priorities;
Resolves safety related issues by participating in the Safety Committee, as required;
Ensures that safety requirements can be verified; review safety test procedures and reports to confirm sufficient coverage of safety requirements;
Verify the safety of the system by performing:
- Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA);
- Functional Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FFMEA);
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA);
- Functional Hazard Analysis (FnHA);
- Functional Safety Analysis (FnSA); and
- Hazard Identification (HAZID) and Hazard Operability (HAZOP) studies.
Accountable for performing the work correctly within cost and schedule limits as defined in approved Work Package;
Provide support to resolve safety related issues by participating in the Safety Committee, as required.

Basic Qualifications

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent;
10+ years train control experience and/or automatic control systems in other industry;
Experience with train control systems and the associated hazard, safety and risk analysis;
Experience with safety standards (CENELEC, MIL, MoD, IEEE, IEC), methods and techniques (FMEA/FMECA, FTA, FHA);
Knowledge of fixed and moving block signalling principles, relay based and computer based interlocking design, and control tables;
Experience in design interface to wayside (e.g., points, track circuits, signals) and rolling stock equipment.
Familiarity software on real time safety critical systems;
Knowledge of safety program and safety lifecycle for complex (safety critical) systems;
Good understanding of safety principles, and ability to evaluate safety and operational impact;
Safety analysis methods and techniques – FTA, FMEA/FMECA, HAZID/HAZOP, PHA, SHA, FnHA;
Proof of Safety/Safety Case – GPSC, GASC, SASC;
Safety standards EN 50126/128/129/159;
Signalling Principles;
Good technical writing, communication and analytical skills;
Computer skills, MS Office; DOORS; Item ToolKit, RAM Commander, Isograph.

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