Safety Engineer

Safety Engineer required to develop and support the delivery of safety artefacts to enable customer approval of safety cases at Critical Design Review (CDR) and vehicle demonstration trials.

Specifically the post holder will be responsible for:
Analysing existing safety, environmental and legislation (SEL) compliance from internal teams and suppliers.
Providing proactive safety engineering support to the programme Design Authorities and Role Leads in validation of existing and identification of new Hazards/Controls.
Analysing Fault Trees, Hazard Log, Causal Events and maturity of Controls to support approval of the 'Accident-Hazard-Control-Evidence' traceability.
Collating safety evidence in support of System Safety Case development and population of DOORs and eCassandra.
Supporting reviews of Hazards, Controls and supporting evidence with stakeholder community.

Typical activities will include:
Active engagement with the systems engineering teams to ensure safety related information is at the required level of maturity.
Provide support to hazard identification, hazard analysis, OSHA, OHHA, Zonal and Common Cause Analysis.
Develop and present ALARP justifications and residual risk.
Support and review of Environmental and Legislation artefacts.
Assessment of safety using 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 stakeholders.
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.
Candidates must be willing to undergo a security vetting procedure.