Description
Safety Engineer.
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 the supplier and customer engineering teams.
Lead and support reviews with the stakeholder community as appropriate
Supporting a 'design for safety' culture within the stakeholder community
Responsibilities
Working for the Safety Programme Manager in the conduct of system safety engineering task activities covering the complete safety programme life cycle.
Support a subcontractor with the generation of the product safety case and other safety related documentation.
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, hazard analysis, 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©.
life cycle 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.
Experience
Essential Experience:
A safety engineer with significant experience who has undertaken system safety assessments on defence programmes through to certification and customer approval.
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 recognised 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.