Senior Safety Engineer in Portsmouth

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Senior Safety Engineer to support an innovative marine project. Based at a client site, you will be part of a team developing a new marine system. This is a senior, self-starting role ideal for someone who brings best practice, initiative and applies strong safety engineering practices in their everyday work. You will contribute to early-phase architecture, requirements development, safety critical systems considerations and integration approaches across a complex marine platform. Note: Expectations are you will be at the customers Portsmouth office 4 days a week for the first month, and then 1 day a week thereafter.

Responsibilities

• Capture, develop, and manage safety requirements in early system definition phases.
• Conduct hazard identification, develop & maintain hazard logs, and perform structured hazard analysis.
• Define and execute the project Safety Plan and Safety Case strategy.
• Carry out risk assessments and drive mitigation actions.
• Ensure safety compliance across systems and sub-systems.
• Work with Systems Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical and Software teams to embed safety into design.
• Prepare safety documentation, reports and contributions to design reviews.
• Support Verification & Validation activities from a safety perspective.

Essential skills

• Experience of safety management application on complex, multi-disciplinary systems.
• The development of Safety Case reports, assessing Safety Case validity and safety assurance including ALARP assessments and providing Safety Arguments for Design Authority Approval.
• Comprehensive experience of Risk Management, including Hazard Logs, Hazard Identification and Hazard Analysis.
• Identification and management of safety engineering requirements.
• System Safety Analysis; e.g. Fault Tree Analysis, Bow Tie Analysis.
• Application of defence safety standards & policy (e.g. Def Stan 00-56, Def Stan 00-55, DSA02 DMR, ASEMS policy (POSMS), IEC 61508).
• Assessing supplier safety compliance, in accordance with legislative and contractual safety requirements.

Desired skills

• Experience with SIL assessment.

What do I need before I apply

• Valid SC Clearance.
• Sole UK Nationality.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits.
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo.
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to: Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job, anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.