Systems Safety Engineer

Systra; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada is seeking a Systems Safety Specialist to lead safety and assurance activities across the full lifecycle, ensuring hazards are identified, risks assessed, and safety requirements met. The role collaborates with engineering, operations, quality, project management, and regulatory teams to embed safety into system design and delivery.

The ideal candidate has a degree in engineering or related field and hands-on experience in safety cases, hazard logs, and regulatory compliance, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, systems, safety, or 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety and assurance activities from concept through design, verification, validation, operation and change management.
• Conduct hazard identification and risk assessments; develop safety arguments.
• Allocate, implement and verify safety requirements across the system lifecycle.
• Support system design reviews to embed safety requirements in architectures and interfaces.
• Prepare safety cases, assurance cases, and compliance evidence for reviews.
• Coordinate verification and validation activities related to safety requirements and risk controls.
• Assess design changes, 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 stakeholders.
• Contribute to lessons learned and the development of safety processes, methods, and tools.
• Support Hazard Log details and workshops for C/U and SRS.

Skills

Systems safety

System assurance

Functional safety

Hazard analysis

Safety cases

Hazard logs

Regulatory standards

Stakeholder management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems, safety, or related discipline

Job description

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.

Understand better who we are by visiting www.systracanada.com.

Context

We are seeking aSystems 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.

The ideal candidate combines strong systems engineering capability with practical experience in safety assurance, risk management, and compliance within complex, safety-critical environments.

Missions/Main Duties

TheSystems Safety Specialistwill lead and support safety and assurance activities from concept through design, verification, validation, operation, and change management. The role includes conducting hazard identification and risk assessments, developing safety arguments, and ensuring that safety requirements are properly allocated, implemented, and verified.

This person will work closely with engineering, operations, quality, project management, and regulatory stakeholders to embed safety principles into system development and delivery. They will also contribute to assurance planning, audits, reviews, and governance processes to confirm that systems operate within acceptable risk tolerances.

Core responsibilities include:

• 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.

Profile/Skills

• 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.

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.

Note: In this description, the masculine gender is used for easy reading purposes and includes the feminine.

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.

For questions about our hiring process or AI tools, please contact [e-mail].

Workplace Type

Hybrid