Systems Safety Engineer

What You Will Do

GFT is seeking a Systems Safety Engineer to join our Practice or CBG Team! This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring some attendance to our Vancouver office.

Working on the transportation team at GFT offers the opportunity to engage in transformative projects that enhance transportation infrastructure and improve community connectivity. Whether working on highways and bridges or traffic engineering, our team excels in resilient, sustainable design and construction, delivering innovative solutions that address the complexities of modern, multimodal roadway systems and ensure safe, efficient, and reliable travel for all.

What You’ll Be Challenged To Do

The successful candidate will assist in the design, construction, operations, and maintenance of commuter, light, and heavy rail transit systems. The successful candidate will deliver innovative, technical work to schedule and plan, while achieving time, quality, and cost targets, as part of our multi-discipline teams or on behalf of our clients in project teams. The successful candidate will take on and lead a broad range of systems engineering activities and plan work packages using project management methods.

The successful candidate must have a strong technical capability in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety analysis methods, and excellent communication skills with the ability to perform a variety of RAMS-related activities for the rail transportation industry.

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Defines RAMS plans for specific projects and transit agencies.
• Establishes processes related to RAMS using industry best practices.
• Specifies RAMS metrics, key performance indicators, and RAMS targets, for electronic, electro-mechanical, and train-based systems.
• Becomes the trusted adviser in all matters related to RAMS for Gannett Fleming’s clients.
• Performs System Hazard Analysis, Operating and Support Hazard Analysis, and Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis on several different systems.
• Executes the RAMS plan for green-field and brown-field developments.
• Supports the continuous development of RAMS activities for ongoing projects.
• Supports the technical consultancy on RAMS, integration, validation & verification, and other related system engineering activities.
• Extracts technical and functional requirements from tender documents to create RAMS requirements.
• Follows company, safety, quality, environmental, commercial, and project management procedures as relevant to tasks undertaken.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical Engineering, or similar field in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Registered Professional Engineer is an asset but not mandatory for this role.

• 15+ years of experience working in Safety applied to Rail Systems
• Experience executing system safety activities in urban rail projects.
• Proven ability to work successfully in multi-disciplinary teams and across different business units.
• Team player, able to work independently, with minimal supervision.
• Experience in a project environment with good customer relationship and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with CENELEC EN 50126, 50129, and 50716.
• Experience working with CSA R114:22.
• Experience working with MIL-882.

The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $. Salary dependent upon experience and geographic location.

• Hybrid (in-person and remote) work environment.
• Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
• Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations
• Incentive compensation for eligible positions.

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