Director, Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance

Brampton, 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.

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Be our next Director, Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance!

Your work environment at EXP

EXP is seeking a Director, Systems Engineering & Safety Assurance to join our global Rail & Transit Systems sector. As the successful candidate, you will use your strategic leadership abilities to establish, lead and grow a team to successfully win and deliver systems engineering and safety assurance mandates across a dynamic North American market setting. The specifics of the position are as follows:
  
What a day at EXP has in store for you

Provide strategic leadership and direction to build and develop an efficient, capable team that applies best practice to deliver integrated, functioning and safe transit systems; Operate as ‘professional head’ for system design and integration within the business sector and on major projects as allocated; Develop and implement key systems engineering processes and practices in accordance with industry standards, including ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288: 2015 Systems and software engineering - System life cycle processes; Establish and maintain a technical center of excellence for rail & transit system engineering and safety assurance within EXP, and establish accreditation (where appropriate) from industry bodies (INCOSE or similar) to facilitate credibility and development for team members; Develop appropriate budgets for the operational team and for allocated scope on projects, and effectively manage cost and delivery performance in accordance with business and project objectives; Lead and direct the team ‘by example’ in achieving company health, safety, security & environmental and ethics & compliance objectives; Lead the drive for business growth through the pursuit of new work and the recruitment of appropriate personnel in collaboration with peer groups and other sectors as necessary; Lead the identification and development of emerging talent within the team and act as a ‘mentor’ in providing guidance and direction for personal growth of team members.
 

What your experience looks like

Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent desirable; Minimum of 15 years’ experience, with at least 5 in a leadership position; Experience as a business/project manager with accountability for P&L performance; Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to lead multi-disciplined engineering teams; Proven experience of the application of systems engineering in major infrastructure projects; Ability to effectively interface with and influence engineering specialists, design managers and construction project managers in a competent professional manner.