Principal Safety Engineer

Principle Safety Engineer - Security Clearance will be gained if eligible

Highly competitive salary and benefits

Our global client are specialists in their field of military, defence and cyber solutions and their work is critical to the security of the world we live in today.

This is a unique opportunity for a Functional Safety Engineer to be the lynchpin for safety assurance activities on cutting-edge infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems – including both surface ships and submarines.

You will play a critical role leading safety activities regarding the development of the product and the provision of support to mission-critical naval operations products.

Operating as a centre of excellence for systems and software, they develop and support internationally deployed command and control solutions.

Benefits
Flexible and hybrid working options

Compressed working schedule

Private health care

Performance bonus.

Your Mission in the Company:

Report to the Product Safety Manager.

Derive safety activities and work schedules required by the programme to deliver agreed project milestones and satisfy safety requirements.

Leading safety activities to ensure that the customer’s safety targets, and derived safety targets can be met by the system design, considering relevant aspects of Hardware, Software and Firmware.

Leading safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.

Ensuring technical documentation is produced to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures.

Leading analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions propose by the engineering teams (HAZOPS, FMECA etc)

Presenting complex and well-reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders in order to influence their consideration of safety decisions.

Working collaboratively within multi-disciplined teams to maximise the company’s reputation by generating high quality and well-reasoned outputs

Awareness of latest standards and best practices to drive improvement

Provide input to the Monthly Staff Meeting, Team Briefings and SOFT report.

Supervision and development of other employees as required. May be requested to act as a mentor to more junior employees.

Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required

Essential Requirements:

Eligible for SC Clearance (minimum 5 years’ UK residency). Single UK citizenship

Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment

Understanding and awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056

Experience of safety assurance of COTS PE based systems and/or high integrity software

Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects

Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis

Experience of the tools and techniques used in developing ALARP justifications

Master’s degree, Degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline