Chief Signaling System Engineer

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consulting groups specializing in public transport and mobility solutions. For over 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions develop by creating, improving and modernizing their transport infrastructure and systems.

Context

In India, SYSTRA is an international consulting and engineering company operating in the fields of Metros, High Speed Rail, Railways, Roads, Buildings, Urban planning, and Water & Environment for public and private organizations.

Our engineers work with passion to deliver the most reliable, cost-effective and made-to measures solutions allowing end users to move seamlessly.

SYSTRA’s unique expertise is backed with a reputation built through technical excellence delivered on projects. Thanks to our know-how of our employees spread across India, we are present at all stages from upstream studies to operation and maintenance. We provide a comprehensive solution to manage all kinds of missions: Detailed Design Consultant, Project Management, Independent checking services.

SYSTRA India’s comprehensive know-how and expertise in Railways provides a wide spectrum of solutions for any challenge (Building a new rail link, doubling the capacity, gauge conversion, upgrading a network, improving the performance of existing lines, etc.).

Our extensive experience encompasses, Bridges, station buildings, Depots, Earthwork & Track Works, Power Supply and Transmission, Signaling & Telecommunications, Rolling Stock, Utilities diversion and yard re-modelling etc.

Our services cover the entire life cycle of the project implementation.

Currently, we are bidding for Metro projects across India. The position of Chief Signaling System Engineer & Chief is the key position in these BIDs.

Missions/Main Duties

• System Architecture & Strategy: Authorizing the design of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system, ensuring it supports the required headway, ATO (Automatic Train Operation), and ATP (Automatic Train Protection).

• Safety Assurance & SIL Compliance: Overseeing the Safety Life Cycle to ensure the system meets SIL4 (Safety Integrity Level 4) standards and managing relationships with the Independent Safety Assessor (ISA).

• Interface Management: Leading critical integration between Signaling and Rolling Stock (on-board equipment), Platform Screen Doors (PSD), and the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC).

• CMRS Certification: Directing the preparation of technical dossiers and field demonstrations required for the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) to authorize commercial operations.

• EMC/EMI Governance: Ensuring the signaling system is electromagnetically compatible with the Traction Power system to prevent signal interference or "phantom" occupancy.

• Procurement & Vendor Control: Vetting global tenders for signaling hardware and software, and approving Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for critical interlockings and servers.

• Migration & Brownfield Planning: For line extensions, managing the complex "cut-over" strategies to integrate new signaling software without disrupting existing passenger services.

Profile/Skills

• Graduate in relevant Engineering
• Required total 23+ years of experience
• 7+ years of experience in relevant projects.

We commit to put people who join us at the heart of improving transportation and urban infrastructure efficiency. As we are growing, this is time to be a part of this challenging adventure. It’s not a job - it’s a career!