Senior Manager – Systems Assurance (Rail)

About the role

Mace is seeking a Senior Manager – Systems Assurance to lead technical assurance for major rail and transportation programmes across the Middle East and Africa. The role provides independent leadership, strategic oversight and governance for Systems Assurance, Safety Assurance, RAMS and systems integration throughout the project lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Provide independent systems assurance leadership, ensuring compliance with client requirements, contractual obligations and industry standards.
• Establish and maintain assurance frameworks, processes, governance structures and assurance strategies from concept to operations readiness.
• Lead review and assurance of Systems Assurance Plans, System Safety Plans, RAMS Plans, Verification & Validation Plans and related deliverables.
• Challenge and oversee RAMS strategies, quantitative targets, allocation methodologies and lifecycle assurance activities.
• Supervise reliability, availability, maintainability and safety analyses, including hazard analyses, FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree and Event Tree analyses.
• Support the preparation, review and acceptance of System Safety Cases and Safety Justifications in collaboration with independent assessors and clients.

Required profile

• Extensive experience in railway systems assurance, safety and RAM management within complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary systems integration and assurance governance.
• Strong track record of working with clients, designers, contractors, assessors and operators to provide technical challenge and assurance.

Required skills

• Systems Assurance
• Safety Assurance
• RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety)
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• System Hazard Analysis (SHA)
• Sub‑System Hazard Analysis (SSHA)
• Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA)
• Operational & Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA)
• FMEA / FMECA
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
• Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD)
• Common Cause Failure (CCF) Analysis