System Engineering Specialist

System Engineering Specialist

Markham, ON

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next System Engineering Specialist!

Your work environment at EXP

EXP is seeking a Systems Engineering Specialist to join our global Rail & Transit Systems group. As a successful candidate, you will be involved inSystems Engineering & Safety Assurance (SESA) activities across multiple projects in our Rail & Transit Systems sector within North America.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Support the development of Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance (SESA) tools and processes for the rail & transit sector.
• Apply principles and processes as defined within ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288: 2015 Systems and software engineering - System life cycle processes, as well as other relevant codes and standards.
• Ensure that interfaces between disciplines in large projects are identified and controlled throughout the planning, design, construction, and commissioning phases.
  Manage project Interface Control Documents (ICDs) or alternatives.
• Manage the System Breakdown Structure (SBS) of the project and coordinates with the Project Manager to manage risks to the project schedule.
• Work with discipline leads to identify interface issues between disciplines, subconsultants and project stakeholders early and to manage risk throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assign interdisciplinary design packages to manage interfaces that are deemed high-risk or have high levels of uncertainty; for example, design packages that translate logical/communications-based systems to physical structural/civil infrastructure.
• Capable of leading design packages for systems requiring high levels of interdisciplinary coordination.
• Co-develop project documentation and plans, such as the SESA Management Plan, Configuration Management Plan, etc.
• Coordinate with the BIM manager to track systems completion status.
• Knowledge of RAMS principles and industry-specific standards is a must. INCOSE certification preferred.
• Develop datasets and tools for bid estimation on projects based on systems integration complexity.
• Develop tools to be deployed on future projects to accelerate systems interface identification and mitigation - facilitating Agile project management practices.
• Provide input in bid documents regarding systems integration capabilities and value proposition.
• Support the win-work team in pursuit of new business opportunities.

Responsible for providing clear KPIs indicating risk mitigated or value unlocked through the deployment of the SESA team:

• Systems managed on Rail projects include:
• Signals & Train Control
• Track Systems
• Cabling
• Walkways
• Lighting
• Vehicle Clearance Envelopes
• Communications & SCADA
• Power/OCS
• Trackwork/Alignment
• Stations/Architecture
• Civil/Geotechnical/Landscape
• Electrical/Utilities
• Structural
• Tunnel ventilation

What your experience looks like

• A Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years’ post-graduate experience.
• Licensed Professional Engineer.
• In possession of, or an ability to secure a G class driver’s license.
• Willingness to travel to jobsites and/or vendor locations.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering and RAMS principles - INCOSE certification preferred.
• IRSE certification preferred for Rail projects.