Senior Manager – Systems Assurance
by Mace Group in Transportation & Shipping
The Senior Manager – Systems Assurance (Rail) provides independent technical leadership, assurance, and strategic oversight for major rail and transportation programmes across the Middle East and Africa. Reporting within the Digital & Technology and Rail Systems team, the role is responsible for ensuring Systems Assurance, Safety Assurance, RAMS, and multidisciplinary systems integration activities comply with client requirements, contractual obligations, programme objectives, and applicable industry standards throughout the entire project lifecycle. Responsibilities include establishing and governing Systems Assurance frameworks, assurance strategies, governance structures, and assurance processes; reviewing and assuring Systems Assurance Plans, System Safety Plans, RAM Plans, Verification & Validation Plans, and associated assurance deliverables; ensuring effective implementation of assurance activities from concept, design, development, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness; reviewing and challenging RAMS strategies, quantitative targets, allocation methodologies, demonstration programmes, lifecycle assurance activities, reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety activities; assessing safety analyses and assurance evidence including 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), and Common Cause Failure (CCF) Analysis; supporting the review and acceptance of System Safety Cases and Safety Justifications alongside Independent Safety Assessors and client representatives; monitoring multidisciplinary systems integration across signalling, telecommunications, SCADA, Operations Control Centre (OCC), Platform Screen Doors (PSD), rolling stock, power systems, and operational technology; ensuring requirements management, interface management, verification and validation, traceability, and configuration control comply with EN 50126 lifecycle requirements; overseeing programme hazard management processes, hazard logs, safety databases, assurance reporting tools, technical audits, compliance assessments, assurance dashboards, and audit readiness; identifying risks, gaps, and non-conformances while providing independent technical challenge and recommendations; acting as the primary interface with clients, delivery partners, designers, contractors, operators, independent assessors, and regulatory authorities; representing the organisation at governance forums, technical reviews, and executive stakeholder meetings; and supporting business development, technical proposals, and strategic advisory services related to rail systems assurance and integration.