Systems Safety Engineer
~12 month contract
~ Edinburgh or Newcastle (3 days p/w on site)
~£60ph - £70ph (Inside IR35)
This role would suit a Systems Safety Engineer who:
Is comfortable working across the whole system and able to quickly develop an understanding of complex interactions and dependencies
Is motivated to work closely with multi-disciplined teams to get down into the detail
Depending on experience, there is an opportunity to manage a safety programme, and/or work across a number of different products, at different stages of the engineering lifecycle.
What you’ll do as a Systems Safety Engineer
Day to day, you will be conducting safety assessments and supporting projects on all safety issues, working closely with project leadership and other engineers in a variety of disciplines. You will:
Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support
Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them
Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree analysis, scenario analysis, and various other techniques
Document and present the outcomes of safety analysis to stakeholders
Generate safety requirements to meet customer and/or regulatory safety target requirements
Work closely with many different engineering disciplines, customers, partners and suppliers to help solve complex problems
Support audits as required
Promote the specialism and Safety Culture within the project(s)
Contribute to continual improvement of the Company Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System
What we need from you:
Experience of safety analysis in a safety-critical industry on complex systems
Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases
Experience with at least one of: ARP4754A, ARP4761, RTCA DO-254, or DO178C
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities
A passion for promoting and improving safety culture
An interest in new and emerging technologies and safety analysis techniques