Job Title: Principal Product Safety Engineer
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth or Manchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
* Attending and reporting to Daily Stand Up Meetings (DSUM)
* Design activities including;
– Holding requirement elicitation workshops
– Applying Product Safety Recognised Good Practice (e.g. IEC 61508, RTCA DO 178C etc.)
– Coordinating and undertaking analysis (Hazard identification, Analysis and Assessment)
– Risk reduction activities (reducing risk ALARP)
– Defining suitable design options and analysing options
* Applying a systems engineering approach to safety products including Working within a centralised modelling tool
* Technically leading and coordination a small safety team as required
* Preparing safety assessments as required to support system design and development
* Preparation of Design Safety Justification supporting inputs
* Providing Safety SME to product design and gate reviews
* Governing and assuring parts of the organisation
* Supporting the development and maintenance of a healthy product Safety Culture within the team and wider business
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Familiarity with UK Defence Standard and publications such as Defence Standard 00-56, Defence Standard 00-55, DSA-01, DSA-02
* Good working knowledge of safety analysis techniques such as:
– Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA)
– Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
– Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
– Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
– System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
* STEM degree with Product Safety experience within a regulated industry
* Good working knowledge of the requirements of IEC 61508 and/or IEC 61511 for complex Software and Hardware Safety Instrumented Systems
Desirable:
* Experience of model-based Systems Engineering
* Chartered Engineer status or working toward chartership
* Experience within the Defence Industry
* Familiarity with Cyber-Safety concepts
* Experience of development of complex Systems of Systems (SoS)
* Knowledge of Safety standards and practices outside of the Defence domain such as Civil Aerospace, Rail, Oil & Gas or other Process Industries
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible workin