Product Safety Manager in Bristol

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

This role provides an opportunity to develop your systems safety engineering skills and leadership by guiding projects and senior stakeholders, mentoring Product Safety Engineers and System Safety Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Supporting bids, generating safety engineering estimates and leading the work packages.
• Developing safety plans and ensuring the implementation of the Thales UK SMS at project level.
• Applying and leveraging your knowledge of Systems Safety Engineering to complex systems and supporting/mentoring junior Product Safety/System Safety Engineers.
• Leading, managing and sometimes undertaking systems safety activities and assessments.
• Ensuring that Thales products are supported by robust safety cases and evidence.
• Working in multidisciplinary project/product teams to identify and manage hazards and risks.

About You

• Experience working at various stages of the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Thrive on doing something different every day and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong desire to learn new things.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, able to understand and decompose complexity and present it in simple terms.
• Ability to influence project teams with regards to safety engineering decisions.

Requirements

• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area.
• Experience of Systems Safety Engineering activities in a complex, safety‑focussed and regulated organisation, such as rail, aerospace, nuclear or oil & gas.
• Experience of working to a safety management system and implementing it at project level.
• Demonstrable experience in the management of engineering work packages & budgets.
• Demonstrable experience in planning and delivering safety engineering programmes of work.
• Extensive experience of undertaking Systems Safety activities including System Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Common Cause Failure Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA), System Hazard Logs, System Hazard Analysis Reports.
• Experience in the identification, capture and management of safety requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of legal & regulatory frameworks for safety (UK, EU, MAA, CAA etc.).
• Experience of developing & managing safety cases and generating ALARP arguments.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an engineering development environment, ensuring Systems Safety compliance is achieved throughout the project life cycle.
• Experience in the application of standards such as Def Stans 00-56 & 00-55, EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129, IEC 61508.
• Aware of safety occurrence investigation principles and processes.
• Professional qualification or working towards professional qualification (e.g. IEng/CEng).

Security Clearance

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. For further details, refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency – United Kingdom Security Vetting.

Benefits

• Market‑leading training, development, and mentorship.
• Bonus, a strong pension contribute plan matched up to 7%, private healthcare, development focused targets, and relocation support if required.
• Private medical insurance, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus.