Safety Assurance Lead

Job Description

Role Summary:

KB Signaling strives for excellence and for this reason we are excited to create the position of Safety Assurance Lead. This is an experienced position that will report directly to the Safety Manager in support of KB Signaling locations. This position will support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of safety during program and/or project development.

This is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Safety Manager.

Responsibilities

• Perform the Safety Assurance activities on project/product development in accordance with the Safety process
• Support tenders by providing Safety Estimates
• Define the Safety Plan, including safety workload, and associated planning for the project/product development
• Perform Safety Analysis
• Apply the safety assurance methodologies (risk acceptance criteria, verification and validation) defined for the project/product development to meet the Safety Targets.
• Manage the Hazard Log through closure
• Support V&V and T&C activities from a Safety perspective
• Work with Engineering teams to integrate products into projects
• Build the Safety Reports and/or the Safety Cases
• Defend the Safety Case in front of external (ISA) assessors; define and follow-up action plans to close the findings of the assessors
• Lead (if any) the Safety Assurance Engineers involved on the project / system / product (Internal or external resources)
• Manage Safety Issues of fielded solutions

Key Job Accountabilities

• Own safety on the related Projects/Program Development, interfacing with the Customer (internal or external) and assessors (external ISA)
• Team lead, if additional Safety Engineers are involved
• Safety budget

Performance Measurements

• On-Time Delivery
• Management of Safety Issues
• Quality of Safety documents
• Compliance to process

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Engineering (System, Electrical, Electro-mechanical, Software)
• 5 years successful experience in safety assurance or safety-critical applications
• Knows and Understands the Safety Standards (AREMA, CENELEC, e.g., or equivalent)
• Structured and organized
• Team player
• Proactive behavior
• Sense of anticipation and urgency
• Ability to say “no” when needed and to support/elaborate plan/solution to deliver
• Resilient (to pressure, to last minutes deliveries, safety issue management)
• Training capability in Safety
• Ability to allocate/drive activities performed by others
• Technical aptitude is critical, must be able to grasp and understand key points in Engineering design and how they can be impacted through cause-effect.

Desired Characteristics

• Railroad Industry Experience
• Leadership experience
• Enjoy interactive in person collaboration
• Organizational skills, retain and categorize information for future development.
• Ability to listen to learn, not assume.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office