At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead safety assurance for advanced naval vessel systems and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Company: Global leader in defence, working on complex and sensitive projects.
- Benefits: Flexible working, holiday buy/sell, performance bonuses, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Must be a Sole UK National with active SC clearance or willingness to obtain it.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in safety engineering and understanding of relevant safety standards.
The predicted salary is between 75000 - 75000 £ per year.
Working pattern
Hybrid (3 days on site)
Salary
The Opportunity
As a Principal Functional Safety Engineer (Marine), you’ll lead safety assurance activities across the design, development, and in‑service support of advanced platform management / control infrastructure for naval vessels (surface and sub‑surface environments).
You will be a key member of the Safety Engineering team, working closely with engineering and programme stakeholders to deliver robust safety arguments and high‑quality assurance outputs for mission‑critical operations.
- What you will be doing
- Derive safety activities and delivery plans aligned to programme milestones and safety requirements.
- Lead safety assurance activity to ensure customer and derived safety targets are achieved through system design (hardware, software, firmware).
- Lead/participate in safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety governance forums.
- Ensure technical documentation is produced to a high standard in line with company/customer processes.
- Lead analysis that influences engineering design decisions and proposed solutions.
- Present clear, evidence‑based safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders to support safe decision‑making.
- Collaborate within multi‑disciplinary teams (systems, hardware, software, ILS, project management, customer and supplier engineering).
- Maintain awareness of relevant standards and best practice to drive continuous improvement.
- What we are looking for
- Relevant experience in a safety‑related engineering environment.
- Experience leading technical activities (work‑package leadership, assurance leadership, or equivalent).
- Understanding of standards such as IEC 61508 and defence‑sector safety standards (e. g., Def Stan 00‑056) (Essential)
- Experience assuring COTS processing‑equipment‑based systems and/ or high‑integrity software.
- Ability to understand hardware/software failure modes, causes and effects.
- Experience with safety/reliability methods: hazard identification/analysis, FMECA, FTA, FFA.
- Experience with risk assessment techniques and developing ALARP justifications.
If you’re ready to join a global leader within defence, challenging yourself on highly complex and sensitive projects then this could be the opportunity for you!
Due to the nature of this role, you must be a Sole UK National with active SC clearance, or with willingness to obtain SC Clearance.
Apply with your CV and if you’re a match, we can set up a quick call to discuss further.
Benefits summary
- Flexible/hybrid working options (including compressed fortnight option)
- Holiday buy/sell
- Performance‑related bonus
- Training, mentoring, and career development opportunities
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