Safety Engineer

MERITUS Talent are working with one of Europe's leading defence organisations for the recruitment of a Safety Engineer to join their Stevenage offices on 12 month contact. The right candidate must be able to achieve a SC Clearance, if not already cleared.

Overview of department:

An opportunity has arisen for an engineer to exploit their safety engineering skills to influence the safety aspects of one of our technically complex products. While exploring the boundaries of best practice, this will involve optimising the effort devoted to safety assurance, with the goal of balancing safety against the inherently lethal attributes required of complex weapon systems.

Responsibilities:

The role is to deliver the safety analysis that will enable one of our existing products to be integrated onto a new platform. This will involve working closely with internal delivery teams, as well as an external, non-UK prime contractor and a non-UK customer. The successful candidate will be required to liaise with key stakeholders (including, but not necessarily limited to, the external customer, the platform authority and stakeholders) to help define the safety boundary for the development of safety claims, assist in the production of the associated Safety Management Plan and to deliver the required safety analyses. The initial emphasis will be progression of the Hazard Analysis, development of a Functional Failure Analysis and support to the development of an appropriate safety architecture (which will include a focus on the electronic and programmable aspects and the associated functional requirements).

In support of this, experience of the following is expected:

• Hazard identification exercises (such as SWIFT and HAZOP);
• Hazard management and risk analysis, including fault tree and event tree analyses;
• Construction of safety arguments and their contribution to ALARP statements;
• Provision of support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees;
• Assisting in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the safety case;
• Liaising with other functions in order to derive safety requirements and hazards;
• Working with systems teams in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety requirements;
• Understanding of DEF-STAN 00-056 (and, ideally, other similar international standards), including the ability to write Safety Management Plans that meet its requirements;
• IEC 61508/DO178C/DO-254 experience (desirable).

Skillset/experience required:

Demonstrable knowledge of, and experience in, the application of UK and International system engineering processes, particularly in safety-related systems and safety assessment processes.

• Thorough understanding and experience of how the hazard analysis process integrates with the system engineering process to influence the design.
• Ability to deliver supporting information (Safety Case Reports, Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FTA, etc).
• Detailed electronic engineering experience is highly desirable (education to degree or HND level or a comparable level of experience is preferred). Experience of other engineering disciplines (design, software, manufacture, etc.) is also desirable.
• Good verbal, written communications analytical and problem solving skills.
• Track record as an effective team player with strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary / multi-national team.
• Stakeholder management.
• Customer/supplier interfacing skills.
• Planning and organisation skills.