Safety Engineer

Our client, a partner of the UK's Ministry of Defence, is seeking a Safety Engineer to oversee the safety aspects of a complex product. In this role, you will leverage your prior experience to push the boundaries of best practices. You will be responsible for optimising safety assurance efforts while balancing the necessary lethal attributes of complex weapon systems. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a critical area.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess the safety of integrating our product onto a new platform.
• Work closely with our client's delivery teams, a non-UK prime contractor, and a non-UK customer.
• Establish safety boundaries, draft a Safety Management Plan, and conduct essential safety analyses.
• Main focus on Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, and developing a safety architecture, especially for electronic and programmable aspects and related functional requirements.
• Conduct various hazard identification exercises, including SWIFT and HAZOP.
• Provide hazard management and risk analysis services, including fault tree analysis and event tree analysis.
• Construct safety arguments and contribute to ALARP statements.
• Assist both internal and external safety panels and committees for projects.
• Manage and integrate various activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure timely delivery of materials that support safety cases.

Knowledge and understanding of DEF-STAN 00-056 and other relevant international standards are necessary to create Safety Management Plans that comply with their regulations. IEC 61508/DO178C/DO-254 experience is desirable.

What do you need?

• Ability to implement UK and International system engineering methodologies, especially for safety-critical systems and their safety assessment procedures.
• Proficiency in integrating hazard analysis with system engineering to shape design and provide safety case reports, hazard analysis, functional failure analysis, and FTA.
• Strong background in electronic engineering, ideally with a degree or HND level education or equivalent experience.
• Experience in other engineering fields such as design, software, and manufacturing is beneficial.
• Proven history of being an efficient team member with excellent interpersonal and influencing abilities.
• Capability to work productively with diverse teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by our clients Security Team.

This role is based at our client's headquarters in Stevenage, a key location for missile operations. The site offers excellent transportation links, an onsite gym, and a coffee shop. Training and development opportunities are available to all employees.