Delkia is a specialist engineering & technology company for safety-related and mission critical systems in Defence and Nuclear sectors. Our offer incorporates: systems integration, engineering design and technical consultancy.
Functional Safety Engineer
Location: Cumbria / Hybrid
Job type: Contract, outside IR35
Rate: Competitive
We believe that engineering is not just about technology, manufacturing and innovation. It’s about the people behind it. Delkia ensures that its teams are the focus of its business through passion, belief and simply a better way of working, resulting in great outcomes for our customers. We’re also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and invest in future talent through supporting STEM initiatives, apprenticeships, placements and summer interns.
Come and join a company that values our people and is growing fast.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Conduct safety analyses of software elements for vehicle control system within an incrementally delivered software product scope.
2. Production of hazard analysis and safety assessment documentation.
3. Maintain hazard / safety assessment logs and produce associated documentation.
4. Provision of safety advice to software developers with respect to software functional design.
5. Provision of safety advice to management team and other stakeholders with respect to software / hardware integration.
6. Supporting software developers through the safety process.
7. Interaction with and influence of the 'computing solution' developers as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies.
8. Interaction with and influence of whole product safety management practitioners / wider product team as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies.
9. Providing continuous improvement feedback into the safety team.
Qualifications & Skills:
1. Chartered Engineer or suitable level of experience to achieve this.
2. Practitioner level safety engineering experience in Aerospace / Nuclear / Defence domains.
3. Ability to work at whole product, system, subsystem, component and sub-component (eg: hardware/software) levels considering integration and interaction issues between and within these levels.
4. Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders within a complex project.
5. Comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment (in terms of scope, processes and delivery).
6. Self-starting, able to work alone or within a team, providing appropriate levels of leadership as necessary.
7. Well versed with safety management processes and common analysis techniques – intrinsic and common cause.
8. Experience in Model Based System Engineering and System Engineering workflows.
9. Experience with civil standards for development of programmable electronic systems (eg: IEC 61508).
10. Experience with civil standards for system development in the Aerospace or Nuclear domain (e.g: ARP4754/ARP4761 or IEC61511).
11. Experience with high level UK defence safety management standards (e.g.: Def-Stan 00-055, Def-Stan 00-056) including their relationship to UK safety law – criminal and civil aspects.
12. Experience with complex distributed electronic control systems and/or inter-related safety systems within a multi-hazard environment.
13. An appreciation of Agile programme management practices.
Equal opportunities: Delkia is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Please be aware that many roles working for Delkia will be subject to security vetting restrictions. All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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