Systems Safety Engineer

Location: Newcastle or Edinburgh, 3 days a week on site

Rate: £70 p/h Umbrella

Duration: 12 Months

Inside IR35

We are recruiting for a number of Systems and Safety Engineering roles, but wherever you go, you will work on real engineering problems, designing and developing solutions that sit at the heart of our products. Your work may be assigned into:

• The radar for the Typhoon fighter jet
• The radar for the SAAB Gripen fighter
• Our family of Surveillance AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radars
• An IRCM (Infra-Red Counter Measures) system
• Our laser target designator or laser ranging systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day to day, you will be conducting safety assessments and supporting projects on all safety issues, working closely with project leadership and other engineers in a variety of disciplines. You will:
• Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support
• Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them
• Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree analysis, scenario analysis, and various other techniques
• Document and present the outcomes of safety analysis to stakeholders
• Generate safety requirements to meet customer and/or regulatory safety target requirements
• Work closely with many different engineering disciplines, customers, partners and suppliers to help solve complex problems
• Support audits as required
• Promote the specialism and Safety Culture within the project(s)
• Contribute to continual improvement of the Company Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System

Key Skillset:

Essential:

• Knowledge of safety analysis in a safety-critical industry on complex systems
• Knowledge across a number of engineering lifecycle phases
• Exposure to at least one of: ARP4754A, ARP4761, RTCA DO-254, or DO178C
• Background of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities

Desirable:

• Proven ability across a number of sub-system teams to develop the system solution
• Proven ability with a high degree of design complexity and significant levels of uncertainty
• Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, and/or sensors and defensive aids systems
• Awareness of Information Security
• Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as via the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) or Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC)

Experience with any of the following tools:

• Cameo Systems Modeler
• Azure
• DOORS
• Adelard ASCE
• Isograph Reliability Work Bench