Chief Safety Engineer

You will lead a team of system safety professionals to deliver complex products, in conjunction with Systems Engineering, that are safe, secure and highly reliable.

The position is within Advanced AESA Radar, one of the three delivery sectors within Leonardo's Radar and Advanced Targeting Systems (RATS) Line of Business (LoB).

The target application areas in the sector include Mission Management Systems, Airborne Fire Control Radar and a range of modular Surveillance Radar products, deployed on a wide range of crewed and uncrewed airborne systems, addressing specific challenges such as flight certification of DO-365/366 Detect and Avoid Systems.

You will be responsible, through your team, for managing the Product Safety and Environmental Impact of the Sector's product portfolio, via implementation of the Leonardo Electronics UK Business Unit's Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System (PSEIMS). This includes responsibility for the monitoring and development of the capability (SQEP) of your team, accountable to the Head of Product Safety for the Line of Business.

Your accountabilities will include delivery of safety programmes within the Sector to cost and schedule, supporting the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) throughout the Product Lifecycle, including business winning. The key accountability is ensuring that processes, plans and people are sufficient to achieve Military and/or Civil Type certification, while applying innovative technologies such as AI/ML, Autonomy, Multicore processors, IMA, MBSE and Agile methods

The Sector Chief Safety Engineer also forms part of the independent assurance function, dependent on experience achieving delegated board signatory for Product Safety, supporting Certificates of Design (CoD) and Declarations of Design and Performance (DDPs).

The RATS LoB is located in Edinburgh and Newcastle and occasional travel will be requested to other locations within the UK and Internationally.

What we are looking for

• Demonstrable and relevant experience analysing complex systems from a Product Safety and Product Environmental Impact Management perspective (as well as analysing the impact of contribution(s) from a Product Security perspective) with the ability to scope and deliver high quality outputs to time and cost against developed programmes of work.
• Demonstrable and relevant experience of being able to define and implement an appropriate safety strategy in order deliver the safety programme of activities efficiently and effectively within in a complex system with multi-Stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain delegated board signatory for Product Safety.
• Demonstrable experience using a range of safety tools and techniques, to provide specialist advice and guidance on complex projects within an Electronics or Avionics discipline.
• e.g. Hazard Log Management; Hazard Identification; Functional Failure Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Risk Assessment and ALARP justifications;
• Experience of one or more of the following:
  • Accepted certification of a software product to RTCA/DO-178C Level C through all Certification Reviews (SOIs).
  • Accepted certification of a firmware product to RTCA/DO-254 Level C through all Certification Reviews (SOIs).
  • Functional decomposition and assignment to item level of DALs under the auspices of SAE ARP 4754.
  • Equivalent experience from an adjacent sector.

• Experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities to achieve Product safety and/or Product security certification in a regulated environment.
• Capability to identify and direct improvements to complex technical and business processes, judging the balance between the cost and impact of change and its resulting benefits.
• The ability to understand complex engineering processes and the inter-dependency of the process components
• A passion for promoting and improving the safety and security of complex systems
• It would be nice, but not essential, if you had:
• Chartered Engineer status
• A 2:1 or higher in a relevant engineering or science-based honours degree.
• Awareness of Information Security.
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following:
  • Current generation SRAM FPGAs and Firmware Design Methods, Tools and Languages.
  • Current generation Model Driven Engineering with auto-coding and applicable software standards for airborne or adjacent hi-reliability sectors.
  • Functional domain architectures for partitioning complex systems implementing multiple mutually non-interfering functions.

• Experience with any of the following tools:
  • Microsoft Office Tools;
  • SAP;
  • Siemens Teamcenter;
  • Cameo System Modeller;
  • IBM DOORS.