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Principal Safety Engineer

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Job Description - Principal Safety Engineer

PERMANENT PRINCIPAL SAFETY ENGINEER

NEW PERMANENT OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE WITHIN A GLOBALLY LEADING DEFENCE COMPANY FOR A PRINCIPAL SAFETY ENGINEER

  • Permanent opportunity for a principal safety engineer
  • Globally leading Defence organisation
  • MUST be able to obtain or already have SC clearance
  • £50,000 - £75,000 DOE
  • To apply please call or email

WHO WE ARE?

We are recruiting a principal safety engineer to work with a multi-national, industry leading Defence company in South-West London. Due to the nature of the work, you must hold, or be eligible for SC Clearance.

WHAT WILL THE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER BE DOING?

As a principal safety engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Safety as well as mentoring more junior members in the implementation, co-ordination and conduct of programme safety and environmental related activities.

WE NEED THE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER TO HAVE….

  • MUST be able to obtain or already have SC security clearance
  • Experience developing safety management plans
  • Experience conducting functional safety assessments
  • Experience documenting system level safety arguments
  • Knowledge of UK and EU safety related legislation
  • Experience with IEC 61508
  • Knowledge of defence and commercial safety standards such as Def Stan 00-056 + 00-056
  • It would be nice to have experience of maritime / defence safety engineering
  • Event Tree and Fault Tree development using Reliability Work Bench

TO BE CONSIDERED….

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to For further information please call me on or . I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7am until 10pm. If unavailable, please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, just search Dominic Barbet. I look forward to hearing from you.

FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER

KEY SKILLS:

SYSTEM SAFETY / SYSTEM SAFETY ENGINEER / SAFETY / SAFETY ENGINEER / SYSTEMS SAFETY / SAFETY ENGINEER / SAFETY CONSULTANT / DEFENCE / AEROSPACE / MILITARY / SYSTEMS ENGINEER / DV CLEARED / DV CLEARANCE / DEVELOPPED VETTING / DEVELOPED VETTED / DEEP VETTING / DEEP VETTED / SC CLEARED / SC CLEARANCE / SECURITY CLEARED / SECURITY CLEARANCE /

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