Safety Engineer

Safety Engineer

You will work in an SC Cleared environment for a global IT consultancy at a Central Government site.

Role Overview

The safety engineering team members provide safety engineering skills to the project, which is predominantly software based, although hardware and health and safety aspects are also included.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Provide the safety assessments undertaken within the assigned workstream, which will involve the following activities:
- Review of new tasking for safety assessment;
- Review and safety assessment of Change Requests and Defects;
- Undertaking analysis of new functionality;
- Participation in Engineering Reviews;
- Liaison with the Governance and Design Teams;
- Participation in Safety Panel/Working Group meetings;
- Examination of potential safety risks;
- Implementation of safety strategies and plans;
- Input to design of safety aspects of the emerging solution;
- Safety options assessment;
- Maintenance of existing safety documentation.

Essential Skills

- Suitably qualified System Safety Engineer possessing:
- Five years experience of safety engineering;
- Up-to-date knowledge of Secure Government Policy and UK (and other relevant) legislation concerning Functional Safety and Health & Safety (eg: Def Stan 00-56, ASEMS (POSMS
- Knowledge of MAA Regulatory Publications;
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Safety engineering techniques:
- Demonstrating functional safety within software intensive systems and associated standards (eg RTCA/DO-178B, RTCA/DO-200A, IEC 61508);
- Safety Argument development using Goal-Structuring Notation (GSN) or Claims-Argument-Evidence (CAE);
- Functional Failure Analysis (FFA); - Hazard Identification (HAZID);
- Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOPS);
- Hazard Log development and management;
- Safety Management Systems implementation at all stages of the programme (ie requirements, production and operational), including the presentation of appropriate safety cases;
- Safety Case Report production;

Desirable Skills
- Knowledge and experience of working with Aircraft Software Systems.
- Knowledge of software development methods and safety related information systems.