Project Signaling Specialist

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A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)

We are looking for a Project Systems Specialist to join our team in Toronto.

The incumbent is accountable for performing the design work correctly, within cost and schedule limits, as defined in approved work packages. The work is typically defined by the Work Package Manager, then reviewed and approved by the Systems Architect and/or Manager. The System Engineer typically works with a team of engineers to define what will be designed, how it will perform and how it will be determined that it is working correctly. As Project System Design Specialist you may also be assigned to lead a group of system engineers on a project or product. This would include reviewing correcting and mentoring other system engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

- TECHNICAL:_
- Prepares and supports customer requirements compliance assessment, gap analysis, and architecture design.
- Converts Customer (internal and/or external) requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
- Similarly creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil customer requirements.
- Prepares system, subsystem, and interface requirement specifications by analyzing and decomposing modelling, refining customer requirements and typical train control domain requirements.
- Prepares Operational Concept Document.
- Prepares and supports bids and proposals, including customer requirements compliance assessment, gap analysis, architecture design, simulation, trade-off of key features, estimation, etc.
- Presents technical design and reports to customers and/or other engineering/management groups in clear, complete, concise, and non-ambiguous terms.
- Defines or proposes updates of processes and standards covering the work and its products based on the knowledge of systems engineering and/or his technical specialty.
- Operational design limits are evaluated and defined;
- Ensures the system design team has strong working relationships with Software, Hardware, Safety and ITV groups.
- Develops a strategy for development of the full solution on a project(s) and leads the system team to deliver based on this strategy
- Ensures and encourages the system team to follow the development process
- Strategy of development not only accounts for system development work but considers the activities of other teams to ensure the end-to-end solution can be developed in an efficient manner
- Evaluates workload to ensure the team has the resources and skills to complete the development and will escalate any concerns to system management.
- Has ability to identify development risks and can create/implement a plan to mitigate these risks
- SAFETY:_
- Promotes a safety culture where product safety is paramount.
- Ensures that safety is built into the design by early identification and resolution of safety related defects.
- MANAGEMENT:_
- Supervises contractors and other systems specialists, by defining their work, coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress and directing them on priorities.
- Proposes work package estimates and descriptions based on the knowledge of the work and project requirements.
- Leads technical discussions, presents technical solutions and regular status reports to internal and external stakeholders.
- Mentor other systems engineers by coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress. Providing technical guidance and directing them on priorities.
- Works closely with other Work Package Managers and the project team to ensure the system team has the inputs needed to perform the design and ensures the system team is providing the necessary outputs/support to other disciplines
- Identifies and implements process improvement initiatives.
- Engages other leaders in the organization to ensure the strategy for design on the project/product is consistent with other initiatives in the organization and is capitalizing on other project/product designs.

Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's of Science in related one of the disciplines: Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Physics, System Design Engineering or other- Senior level expertise in URS Systems or minimum 8 years with similar system complexity- Referent/coach on specialized engineering skills of the CBTC domain- Communications based train control- Railway Signaling- Requirements Engineering- Systems Design- System Modelling

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