Senior Manager Systems Assurance (Rail)📣 Job Ad

About Mace

Mace is a global programme management company that delivers complex and transformative infrastructure programmes. The company's purpose is to pursue a sustainable world and create places and opportunities that have a positive impact on people and communities.

The Role

Mace is seeking an experienced Senior Manager Systems Assurance (Rail) to join its Digital & Technology and Rail Systems team in Riyadh. This full-time role provides independent technical leadership, assurance, and strategic oversight for Systems Assurance, Safety Assurance, RAMS, and systems integration activities. The objective is to ensure programme delivery aligns with client requirements, industry standards, and programme objectives across major rail and transportation programmes in the Middle East and Africa. The Senior Manager will collaborate with clients, delivery partners, designers, contractors, assessors, and operators to provide robust technical challenge and assurance throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide independent systems assurance leadership for major rail and transit programmes, ensuring compliance with client requirements, contractual obligations, and applicable industry standards.
• Establish and oversee Systems Assurance frameworks, processes, governance structures, and assurance strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the review and assurance of Systems Assurance Plans, System Safety Plans, RAM Plans, Verification & Validation Plans, and associated assurance deliverables.
• Ensure effective implementation of systems assurance processes across the full system lifecycle, including concept, design, development, testing, commissioning, handover, and operations readiness.
• Review and challenge RAMS strategies, quantitative targets, allocation methodologies, demonstration programmes, and lifecycle assurance activities.
• Provide oversight of reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety activities to ensure alignment with project performance requirements.
• Assess the adequacy and consistency of 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.
• Support the review and acceptance of System Safety Cases and Safety Justifications in collaboration with Independent Safety Assessors and Client representatives.
• Monitor system integration activities across multidisciplinary rail systems such as signalling, telecommunications, SCADA, OCC, PSD, rolling stock, power, and operational technology systems.
• Ensure requirements management, interface management, verification and validation activities align with EN 50126 systems lifecycle requirements.
• Oversee programme hazard management processes, hazard logs, safety databases, and assurance reporting tools to ensure traceability, transparency, and audit readiness.
• Lead assurance reviews, technical audits, and compliance assessments across project delivery teams and suppliers.
• Act as the primary systems assurance interface between Mace, the Client, Delivery Partners, Designers, Contractors, Operators, Independent Assessors, and Regulatory Authorities.
• Represent Mace at technical review meetings, governance forums, assurance boards, and executive stakeholder engagements.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Degree level education or equivalent.
• Strong technical leadership and systems thinking capability.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to provide independent, constructive, and evidence-based technical challenge.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering and assurance principles underpinning EN 50126 and their practical application on complex rail programmes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk management skills.
• Experience working within complex, high-profile, multi-stakeholder programme environments.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead assurance activities across organisational boundaries.

Mace Values

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: Championing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: Owning the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes, and building long-term relationships with clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: Influencing positive outcomes within the industry, while aligning with compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: Championing a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring people and teams to develop.

Application Information

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. The company is open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options where suitable for the role.