System Safety Engineer

Hampshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job Role: System Safety Engineer

Location: Hampshire

Type: Contract

Duration: 3 months

Salary/Rate: £40 - £45 Per Hour

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: SC Clearance or Willing to Undergo

System Safety Engineer - Contract - Hampshire - £40 - £45 Per Hour

Our client is seeking a Safety Engineer to support the company in updating existing systems and SW safety cases. The requirement is for a system safety engineer who understands high level software safety.

The successful candidate needs to have an understanding of land based environments and must be able to communicate efficiently verbally and in writing.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop Safety Management Plans, including sub-contractor/supplier interfacing elements
  • Conduct Safety Assessments such as Preliminary Hazard Analysis, System Hazard Analysis, Sub System Hazard Analysis, Functional safety assessment, Occupational and Operating Hazard Analysis
  • Derive safety requirements, including integrity requirements
  • Document System level safety arguments, Safety Cases and Safety Reports
  • Review subcontract safety documents
  • Participate as required in:
    • Zonals and physical safety audits
    • HAZOP studies
    • Project Safety Committees
  • Demonstrating compliance with legislative requirements
  • Understand the safety requirements of the projects and perform analyses on Programmes as directed by leadership, with direction of the Lead System Safety Engineer or Chief System Safety Engineer as required
  • Update the System and Software Safety Cases of a Land Based System

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

  • UK and EU safety related legislation (eg Health and Safety at Work Act)
  • Environmental legislation and management systems (eg ISO14001 etc.)
  • Defence and commercial safety standards such as Def Stan 00-56, Def-Stan 00-55, Mil Std 882, IEC61508, JSP 454)
  • Project Oriented Safety Management System (POSMS)
  • Safety Case development using the Adelard Safety Case Editor (ASCE)
  • Hazard Management using eCassandra
  • Event Tree and Fault Tree development using Reliability Work Bench

Desired Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

  • Application of current safety standards at the 'systems integration' level
  • An understanding of the implication of derived safety requirements, including integrity requirements assigned to programmable elements
  • High level understanding of software safety arguments
  • Application of the Project Oriented Environmental Management System (POEMS)
  • Ability to edit HTML documentation
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer

Personal Attributes:

  • Be able to work on the task associated with the overall function without placing an excessive burden on the practitioner or expert
  • Be able to undertake system engineering activities (related to the safety domain)
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
  • Be a team player
  • Be able to work at customer or sub-contractor sites with minimal supervision

RECOMMEND A FRIEND: If you have professional friends/colleagues who would be interested in one of our roles and our excellent levels of service too, we'd like to recognise your recommendations with a 'thank you' of our own. For every colleague you refer who then starts a role through Datasource either Contract or Permanent, we will send you £300!

You will be required to hold a minimum of SC security clearance. If you do not hold an active SC clearance please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.

Hit the 'Apply now' button to apply and to discuss this role further. We will be delighted to hear from you!

(c) Copyright Datasource Computer Employment Limited 2017.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3 months
From
Datasource Computer Employment
Published at
22.02.2017
Project ID:
1293150
Contract type
Freelance
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