Principal Safety Engineer

Location: Southampton (mostly onsite)
Duration: 6 month contract
Rate: £78ph UMB (Inside IR35)

Role details:

We are looking for a Lead/Principal System Safety Engineer to support our defence client in Southampton - the role will focus on safety engineering across integrated sensing, communications and non-kinetic effects systems being developed for test, development and demonstration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide specialist safety engineering advice to support product safety authorisation in accordance with established processes
• Ensure programme safety activities follow the safety management plan and that all analysis is complete, accurate and appropriately documented
• Identify and analyse intrinsic and functional hazards, developing mitigation strategies to reduce residual safety risks to an ALARP level
• Elicit system safety requirements and ensure their effective flow-down to the appropriate engineering teams
• Review subsystem safety analyses and incorporate the findings into integrated system safety assessments
• Review aircraft-level safety analysis and ensure alignment with the integrated system safety assessment
• Lead the delivery of safety artefacts, identifying dependencies across systems, teams and aircraft-level activities
• Present integrated safety assessments at design reviews and communicate key findings to stakeholders

Job Requirements:

• Experience in safety analysis of complex systems within a safety-critical industry
• Experience across multiple engineering lifecycle phases
• Experience leading and delivering safety work packages across multi-disciplinary teams
• Knowledge of aircraft-level safety regulations and safety analysis techniques
• Familiarity with ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C would be advantageous
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at varying levels of seniority
• Ability to understand complex system interactions, dependencies and design uncertainty
• Relevant STEM degree or equivalent professional experience

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, sensors or defensive aids systems
• Awareness of information security principles
• Experience working with highly complex designs and significant levels of uncertainty
• Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as those associated with the Institution of Engineering and Technology or the Safety-Critical Systems Club
• A strong commitment to promoting and improving safety culture

Useful Tools Experience:

• Cameo Systems Modeler
• IBM DOORS
• Adelard ASCE
• Isograph Reliability Workbench

If you are an experienced System Safety Engineer with a background in defence, aerospace or another safety-critical environment, apply now to support this important integrated systems programme in Southampton.