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About the Role

SYSTRA Canada is seeking a Systems Safety Specialist (Systems Assurance) to support the development, integration, and assurance of safe, reliable, and compliant systems across the full lifecycle. This role is responsible for identifying hazards, assessing risks, defining safety requirements, and providing independent assurance that systems meet applicable safety, regulatory, and operational standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support safety and assurance activities from concept through design, verification, validation, operation, and change management.
• Conduct hazard identification and risk assessments.
• Develop safety arguments.
• Ensure safety requirements are properly allocated, implemented, and verified.
• Work closely with engineering, operations, quality, project management, and regulatory stakeholders to embed safety principles into system development and delivery.
• Contribute to assurance planning, audits, reviews, and governance processes to confirm that systems operate within acceptable risk tolerances.
• Develop and maintain system safety and assurance plans aligned with project, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Perform hazard analyses such as PHA, FHA, FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, bowtie analysis, or similar techniques as appropriate.
• Identify, classify, and track hazards through to closure, ensuring effective mitigations are defined and implemented.
• Derive and manage safety requirements and ensure traceability across the system lifecycle.
• Support system design reviews to ensure safety requirements are embedded in architectures, interfaces, and operational concepts.
• Prepare safety cases, assurance cases, compliance evidence, and supporting documentation for internal and external review.
• Coordinate verification and validation activities related to safety requirements and risk controls.
• Assess design changes, deviations, incidents, and non-conformances for safety impact.
• Support certification, regulatory submissions, and customer assurance activities where required.
• Facilitate safety workshops and cross-functional risk reviews with internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to lessons learned, continuous improvement, and the development of safety and assurance processes, methods, and tools.
• Support Hazard Log details and workshops for C&U and SRS.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems, safety, or a related discipline.
• Experience in systems safety, system assurance, or functional safety roles.
• Knowledge of safety lifecycle processes and systems engineering principles.
• Experience developing safety cases, hazard logs, and assurance documentation.
• Familiarity with applicable industry standards, regulations, and assurance frameworks.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and influence technical decisions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Skills

• Systems safety
• System assurance
• Functional safety
• Safety lifecycle processes
• Systems engineering principles
• Safety cases
• Hazard logs
• Assurance documentation
• Industry standards
• Regulations
• Assurance frameworks
• Analytical skills
• Documentation skills
• Stakeholder management
• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Technical decision influence
• Verbal communication
• Written communication

Location

• Canada

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

About the Company

• SYSTRA Canada is part of the SYSTRA group, an international consulting and engineering group, a world leader in the design of transport infrastructures.
• SYSTRA Canada is an engineering and consulting firm whose primary focus is to offer transportation solutions, whether for passengers or goods: feasibility studies of building a new railway line, increasing the capacity of the existing infrastructure, privatization of a railway.
• We use AI-enabled tools in our recruitment platform (iCIMS) for tasks like resume parsing and candidate matching. These tools do not make hiring decisions; all applications are reviewed by a human recruiter, and final decisions are made by our hiring team.

Equal Opportunity

• SYSTRA Canada is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that values applications from all and offers employment equity based on the merits and abilities of candidates and personnel.