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Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)
The Validation department, under the leadership of the Independent Validator, is responsible for ensuring the delivery of fit-for-purpose rail signaling products. To achieve this, the department must contribute to company culture and practices to ensure all staff clearly understand technical objectives and responsibilities and employ processes that are compliant with industry standards and best practices for the development of mission and safety-critical system
Key Accountabilities: - Define processes and support the implementation of processes, for testing, integration, verification and validation, that align with industry best practices, international standards, and the expectations of our customers, including development of awareness and training programs;
- Ensure the consistent and correct application of these processes in commercial Projects and Product development;
- Perform audits and independent assessments for commercial Projects and Product development;
- Identify issues related to technical safety and applied processes, and ensure timely escalation and resolution of the issues;
- Provide leadership and guidance to assist in dependability-related decision-making;
- Provide direct support to the Bids and Proposals process such that informed decisions can be made regarding technical and contractual dependability issues at the earliest opportunity in a commercial Project's lifecycle;
- Stay current with practices and processes applicable to railway and other mission and safety-critical industries (e.g. aerospace, military, nuclear, modern medical technology); and
- Lead process and product related investigations.
Key Requirements: - B. Sc. Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum five years experience designing or testing of embedded real time systems or equivalent software or hardware design or test experience
- A broad exposure to the development of mission and safety-critical systems, ideally communications-based train control technology.
- Experience performing engineering lifecycle activities. Experience auditing and assessing activities relevant to determination of the fitness-for-purpose of a developed and deployed system, such as System Engineering and Verification & Validation activities.
- Extensive knowledge of safety design principals and processes.
- Extensive knowledge of specification-driven system design (as it applies to computer systems with both hardware and software operation).
- Knowledge of CENELEC standards, AREMA, and other international safety and signaling design standards.
Preferred Qualifications: - Substantial experience in real-time testing of embedded real time systems or equivalent software or hardware test experience
- Computer literacy including word processing, spreadsheet, and databases is essential. Computer literacy using special application software such as problem tracking, requirement management and parsing software
- Knowledge of transit rail system and particularly SELTRAC products is a significant asset
- Demonstrated fluency and understanding/comprehension in oral and written English
- Understands basic engineering management practices for project planning and scheduling
- Field experience in a rail transit installation, test or support environment or similar technology application is of significance
- Experience in task planning, including estimation, performance tracking and reporting
- Engineering risk and decision-making process is desirable
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