Safety Risk Management Specialist; Risk modeling & Intelligence

Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

Our System Safety and Engineering Management (SSEM) Department is currently looking for a Safety Risk Management Specialist. This role is crucial for managing the organization's safety risks to ensure the protection of employees, the public, passengers, and contractors. The specialist will enhance our ability to consistently identify risks and implement effective mitigation strategies, thereby improving safety and operational efficiency.

The Risk Management Specialist supports the organization in the development and maintenance of safety risk models for various asset types, tracks the performance of safety metrics over time, and maintains a record of interventions and their associated outcomes for each safety risk. Over time, the role contributes to the development of a register of actions most likely to reduce, prevent, or mitigate specific safety risks or categories of safety events.

By delivering on the Safety Risk Management Program, the Risk Management Specialist contributes to the achievement of Metrolinx’s corporate safety strategic goals and objectives.

• Conduct and/or guide the conduct of quantitative and qualitative analysis of safety risks within operational programs in order to identify high priority safety risks.
• Analyse safety data to categorize, estimate, and prioritize the safety risks which can affect an operational program, including safety risks identified during an incident investigation.
• Develop new safety risk models and enhance existing models across various asset types.
• Develop safety risk and performance reports on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Collaborate with business units and external stakeholders in the application of safety risk management processes, standards, systems, and procedures in the conduct of safety risk assessments compliant with the Metrolinx Risk Management Maturity Model.
• Deliver safety risk management guidance, training, and advice to business units and external stakeholders in order to build safety risk awareness and to ensure consistent due diligence with respect to safety within Metrolinx.
• Facilitate safety workshops with Metrolinx business units to collect safety data associated with potential safety risks within operational programs and engineering project deviations to ensure the safety risks are identified and appropriately addressed.
• Develop and maintain the Safety Risk Scorecard that clearly defines, quantifies and trends higher priority risk to produce actionable insight for targeted stakeholders and decision-makers, including business units and organizational leadership.
• Recommend ways to maximize safety awareness and promote positive safety culture within the business units.
• Support the continuous improvement of safety at Metrolinx through the application of standardized safety risk assessment and risk control practices, consistent with Metrolinx Enterprise Risk Management.
• Collaborate with business units and external stakeholders with respect to enterprise-wide safety risk management.

• Completion of a degree in Risk Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Analytics, Statistics, or a related discipline – or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
• Demonstrated years’ experience in safety risk management, safety assessments and/or safety investigations. Experience with applying ISO 31000 for risk management would be an asset.
• Experience producing data visualizations with Power BI, Tableau or similar products an asset, as are experience with R, Python, SAS,…