Job Description
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