Senior Safety & RAM Engineer

Parsons; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision/Dental benefits

Pension plan (DCPP)

Job summary

Parsons is hiring a Senior Safety & RAM Engineer to support transportation projects across Canada with a hybrid work model in a Canadian Parsons office. You will lead safety management processes, RAM analyses, and safety documentation across the project lifecycle.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of experience in railway safety, knowledge of EN50128/50129/50126, and familiarity with RAM/Life Cycle methods, with Professional Engineer status as an advantage.

Qualifications

• Degree in technical engineering (Electrical/Electronic preferred) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Professional Engineer registration is an advantage.
• Experience with railway turnkey subsystems.
• Familiarity with RAMS lifecycle and EN50128/50129/50126 standards.
• Knowledge of MIL-HDBK-217 FN2 or MIL-STD-1629A.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain safety management and engineering processes.
• Conduct RAM and safety analyses (FTA, PHA, SHA/SSHA, IHA, OSHA).
• Prepare Safety Case demonstrations per EN50129 and lifecycle activities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, and customers to ensure safety requirements are met.
• Review Verification and Validation activities from a safety perspective.

Skills

Safety RAM

RAM Analyses

Hazard Analysis

System Safety

Lifecycle processes

Education

Master's/Bachelor's in engineering

Tools

Isograph

ReliaSoft

FMEA/FMECA

RAM tools

DOORS

ClearQuest

Job description

Job Description

Parsons is now hiring a Senior Safety & RAM Engineer working within a team of professionals working on specific projects or helping to develop our expanding portfolio of projects. This role would be supporting projects across Canada and flexible with a hybrid work model in one our Canadian Parsons offices.

Job Requirements

You are a Safety & RAM professional working for Transportation / Railway Projects. Being a part of the team, you are involved in Project Life Cycle activities & worked closely with Project Engineering (Design and V&V) Teams, peers & the Customers. You are responsible for establishing and/or maintaining the safety management and engineering processes that will be followed to demonstrate the safety of the system. Using the customer requirements and the country-specific regulations/standards to be applied, you will establish the system requirements with regard to reliability (R), availability (A), maintainability (M) and safety (S) Your role also includes:

• Close coordination with engineering, development, system suppliers, validation, assessors/authorities to ensure that work is performed efficiently

• Safety Case demonstration based on EN50129 and system life cycles activities according to EN50126.

• Documentation for demonstration of overall system performance and agreed safety acceptance criteria.

• Identification and management of hazards and assessment of the associated risks(Hazard Log management)

• Conducting Safety Analyses. Support for System Safety Plan, Safety Reports and other safety documents like Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), System / Sub-System Hazard Analysis (SHA / SSHA), Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA), Operational & Support Hazard Analysis (OSHA) and overall Hazard log management.

• Conducting RAM Analyses. Support for System RAM Plan, RAM Analysis and Prediction, Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMEA / FMECA) ,Quantitative Risk Assessment, RAM Demonstration, FRACAS analysis, Spare calculation.

• Implementation of quality, configuration, and documentation management directives applicable.

• Review and validate Verification and Validation process and T&C activities from a Safety perspective.

• Participation in Safety Reviews managed by Quality team.

• Review for adherence to RAMS requirements, e.g., review of system architecture, SRS, other project documents

We don’t need superheroes, just super minds:

• You have degree (Master's/Bachelors) in technical engineering, preferably in electrical/electronic engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience.

• Professional Engineer registration with active membership in a professional engineering society is an advantage

• Technical knowledge on main subsystems of a railway turnkey project.

• Experience in reading and understanding technical requirements.

• Knowledge on standards associated with CEN EN50128, 50129, 50126

• Experience with ISO/IEC/IEEE-15288 Standard for Systems and Software Engineering processes, and alignment with the RAMS Lifecycle

• Practitioner of ALARP principle.

• Knowledge on MIL-HDBK-217 FN2 or similar standards

• Knowledge on MIL-STD-1629A or similar standards

• Experience with Reliability Analysis tools Isographic Reliability Workbench, ReliaSoft, Item Toolkit ,Relex or similar tools

• Familiar with Configuration tools like DOORS ClearQuest, Livelink, Citrix Application.

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

This job posting is for a current addition or replacement opportunity within Parsons.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—

About Us

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