Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer (EMC specialism)
Overview:
Role: Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer (EMC specialism)Location: Toronto, Canada
Role ID: 2024-2453
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions.Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on diverse and challenging projects, contribute to our expanding client base and play a pivotal role in enhancing our EMC capability.
Key responsibilities- Lead and contribute to a wide range of rolling stock, infrastructure and research-driven projects on behalf of our esteemed clients such as Metrolinx, Translink, Hitachi and City of Calgary.
- Collaborate with project leads to ensure project delivery adheres to high-quality standards and meets established timelines.
- Develop engineering safety cases with a focus on electrical engineering aspects, including but not limited to overhead line harmonics, interference into trackside equipment, train borne interference interacting with safety-critical signalling systems, and compliance with EMC standards like EN 50121.
- Prepare comprehensive technical engineering reports and develop credible safety arguments to demonstrate the safety of proposed changes and control risks to an acceptable level.
- Review and assess electrical safety documentation, raise observations and close out accordingly when sufficient evidence has been received to demonstrate compliance with CMREA.
- Attend SRP Meetings to support significant change submissions
- Peer review assessment records completed by assessors
- Experience in electrical engineering preferably with a focus on EMC.
- Proven expertise in writing engineering safety cases, specifically addressing electrical engineering issues related to EMC compliance, harmonics, interference, and signalling systems.
- Strong understanding of power electronics, AC machines, and control systems to effectively mitigate interference and ensure SIL integrity.
- Experience in risk assessment methodologies (CSM-RA / CMREA), hazid meetings, hazard record management and equipment failure modes analysis.
- Excellent technical report writing skills and the ability to develop credible safety arguments.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders, including infrastructure controllers, regulatory bodies and industry partners.
- Strong attention to detail, problem solving abilities, and a passion for delivering high-quality results.
- Independent Safety Assessment experience is desirable
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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