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About the Role
Manage systems engineering and safety assurance activities across a large-scale transit program, ensuring that all systems are fully integrated, compliant, and safe for operation. Play a key role in overseeing requirements, interfaces, verification, and certification, ensuring the program meets regulatory, operational, and safety expectations across its full lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Report to the Systems Engineering Manager and support the whole scope of systems engineering and safety assurance (SESA) activities across the program lifecycle.
- Oversee the development and management of system requirements, ensuring full traceability through design, delivery, and operation.
- Coordinate interface management across multidisciplinary systems, including rail systems, stations, civil infrastructure, and utilities.
- Develop and maintain system safety strategies, plans, and governance frameworks aligned with project and regulatory requirements.
- Lead hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard log management, ensuring risks are mitigated to acceptable levels.
- Oversee the preparation and acceptance of safety cases and assurance documentation, demonstrating systems are safe and fit for purpose.
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards and frameworks (e.g., RAMS / EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129, and U.S. transit safety requirements).
- Manage verification and validation (V&V) processes, ensuring systems meet defined performance and safety requirements.
- Support and coordinate safety certification and regulatory approval activities, ensuring readiness for safe entry into service.
- Oversee contractor and supplier SESA deliverables, ensuring alignment with program requirements and quality expectations.
- Act as a key interface with client teams, regulators, independent assessors, and stakeholders, supporting audits and reviews.
- Support integration, testing, commissioning, and handover of systems into operations.
- Drive a proactive Safety Management System (SMS) approach across the program.
- Mentor and guide engineers, supporting development of systems engineering and safety capability within the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, safety assurance, or RAMS within transportation or infrastructure sectors.
- Proven experience supporting or managing systems engineering and safety assurance activities on complex rail or transit programs.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements management, interface management, and V&V.
- Demonstrated experience in hazard analysis, risk management, and safety case development.
- Experience applying rail safety standards and frameworks (e.g., EN 50126/8/9, RAMS, SMS, or equivalent).
- Experience supporting safety certification, regulatory approval, and commissioning processes.
- Understanding of multidisciplinary system integration across rail environments.
- Experience working in client-facing or embedded delivery environments preferred.
- Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Skills
- Systems engineering
- Safety assurance
- RAMS
- Requirements management
- Interface management
- Verification and validation (V&V)
- Hazard analysis
- Risk management
- Safety case development
- Rail safety standards
- Safety certification
- Regulatory approval
- Commissioning processes
- System integration
- Stakeholder engagement
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Education Level
- BSc / MSc in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or related discipline)
Benefits
- Personal and group performance bonuses
- 401k
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- Parental leave
- Company paid life insurance
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, providing engineering, management, and development services.
- We support multisector project work in over 150 countries.
- We have a network of over 20,000 talented consultants.
- Sustainability and innovation are at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.
- We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work.
- We foster a collaborative environment where ambitions are united with ours.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability status.