Senior Safety Specialist Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Safety Specialist to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of integrated project team and promote company’s safety policy and best practices;
- Analyze and evaluate design compliance with safety requirements and safety principles;
- Define technical and functional safety requirements for train control systems, including Safety Integrity Levels (SIL);
- Perform hazard identification studies (HAZID, HAZOP), hazard analyses (PHA, SHA, HAZID, FTA, FHA) and safety analyses (FFMEA, FMECA, FSA);
- Prepare System Safety Plan and coordinate safety activities throughout entire system lifecycle;
- Review the adequacy and completeness of the safety evidence, including test and verification reports, and produce the Safety Case.
Requirements:
- Detailed knowledge of software lifecycle, system and software requirements definition, software architecture and design;
- Ability to plan and prioritize tasks and work in an integrated and multi-disciplinary team;
- Works with Engineering departments and integrated project team as a team player with the view that others are your customers;
- Excellent command of the English language, both written and oral;
- Working knowledge of safety methods and techniques: FTA, FMEA/FMECA, HAZOP/HAZID;
- Manages and schedules daily/weekly activities within budget and time allowances given;
- Good presentation skills;
- Excellent command of English, both written and oral;
- Defines the work and supervises performance of junior staff;
- Experience with software development in embedded systems, strong C/C++, ADA skills;
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering; Computer Science or equivalent;
- Decides how best to perform the work;
- Member of Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO) or Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE);
- Experience with safety related standards EN 50126/128/129/159, IEC 61508, MIL-STD-882/1629, MoD 00-55/56/58, ARP 4761, IEEE 1474, AREMA;
- Participates in engineering activities to ensure “built-in safety” properties in Thales systems.