Principal Safety Engineer

Description

Location: Southampton (mostly onsite)

Duration: 6 month contract

Rate: £78ph UMB (Inside IR35)

Role details:

We are looking for a Lead/Principal System Safety Engineer to support our defence client in Southampton - the role will focus on safety engineering across integrated sensing, communications and non-kinetic effects systems being developed for test, development and demonstration.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide specialist safety engineering advice to support product safety authorisation in accordance with established processes

Ensure programme safety activities follow the safety management plan and that all analysis is complete, accurate and appropriately documented

Identify and analyse intrinsic and functional hazards, developing mitigation strategies to reduce residual safety risks to an ALARP level

Elicit system safety requirements and ensure their effective flow-down to the appropriate engineering teams

Review subsystem safety analyses and incorporate the findings into integrated system safety assessments

Review aircraft-level safety analysis and ensure alignment with the integrated system safety assessment

Lead the delivery of safety artefacts, identifying dependencies across systems, teams and aircraft-level activities

Present integrated safety assessments at design reviews and communicate key findings to stakeholders

Job Requirements:

Experience in safety analysis of complex systems within a safety-critical industry

Experience across multiple engineering lifecycle phases

Experience leading and delivering safety work packages across multi-disciplinary teams

Knowledge of aircraft-level safety regulations and safety analysis techniques

Familiarity with ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C would be advantageous

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at varying levels of seniority

Ability to understand complex system interactions, dependencies and design uncertainty

Relevant STEM degree or equivalent professional experience

Desirable Skills:

Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, sensors xjnqpsq or defensive aids systems

Awareness of information security principles

Experience working with highly complex designs and significant levels of uncertainty

Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as those associated with the Institution of Engineering and Technology or the Safety-Critical Systems Club

A strong commitment to promoting and improving safety culture

Useful Tools Experience:

Cameo Systems Modeler

IBM DOORS

Adelard ASCE

Isograph Reliability Workbench

If you are an experienced System Safety Engineer with a background in defence, aerospace or another safety-critical environment, apply now to support this important integrated systems programme in Southampton

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