Principal Safety Engineer

Principal Safety Engineer required to develop and support the delivery of safety cases to enable vehicle demonstration trials and in service use by military personnel.

Specifically the post holder will be responsible for:
Collating safety evidence in support of System Safety Case development.
Providing proactive safety engineering support to the programme.
Critically reviewing safety, environmental and legislation (SEL) requirements compliance from internal teams, suppliers and government furnished equipment.
Ensuring SEL requirements are used to influence engineering design.
Leading the delivery of physical hazard compliance through engagement with all interested parties.
Lead and support reviews with stakeholder community as appropriate.
Supporting a 'design for safety' culture within the stakeholder community.
Conduct system safety engineering task activities covering the complete safety programme life cycle.
Active engagement with the systems engineering teams to ensure safety related information is at the required level of maturity for the stage of the programme.
Provide support to hazard identification, safety target apportionment, hazard analysis, safety criteria derivation, OSHA, OHHA, Zonal and Common Cause Analysis.
Develop and present ALARP justifications.
Support and review of Environmental and Legislation artefacts.
Familiar with safety analysis techniques and tools, including FMECA, FFA, FTA, ETA, GSN, hazard logs and eCassandra©.
Lifecycle management of safety artefacts and support to change process.
Supporting the definition of safety acceptance tests for equipment prior to release for trials and integration activities. Interfacing with customer and supplier safety management stakeholders.
Lead and support safety working groups, safety committee meetings.
Ensure compliance with defined standards and company processes.

The successful candidate will have the below skills:
A safety engineer with significant experience who has undertaken system safety assessments on major UK defence programmes through to certification and customer approval for use within military land system applications.
Experience in producing Safety Cases in accordance with DEF STAN 00-56, JSP 454 and POSMS at System level including all primary sub-systems.
Experienced in producing compelling system safety arguments.
Derivation and setting of appropriate safety criteria/requirements.
Undertaking hazard identification, hazard analysis and risk assessment to include HAZOP, SWIFT, FMEA(CA), FTA, ETA, GSN techniques.
Producing and assessing tolerability and ALARP arguments.
Producing robust safety arguments and reports.
Familiar with recognized standards and procedures including Def Stan 00-56, IEC 61508, JSP 454, POSMS, JSP 375, JSP 815.
Understanding and application of safety and general purpose tool sets, eg: FaultTree+, Cassandra and MS Office tools.
Formal qualification in Safety Engineering or Safety Management.
Candidates must be willing to undergo a security vetting procedure.