Safety Engineer

Location:              Stevenage

Duration:             12 months

Rate:                   60 per hour Umbrella

An opportunity has arisen for an engineer to use their safety engineering skills to influence the safety aspects of technically complex products.  While exploring the boundaries of best practice, this will involve optimising the effort devoted to safety assurance, with the goal of balancing safety against the inherently lethal attributes required of complex weapon systems.

Responsibilities

The role is to deliver the safety analysis that will enable one of our existing products to be integrated onto a new platform.  This will involve working closely with internal delivery teams, as well as an external, non-UK prime contractor and a non-UK customer. 

The successful candidate will be required to liaise with key stakeholders (including, but not necessarily limited to, the external customer, the platform authority and stakeholders within the business) to help define the safety boundary for the development of safety claims, assist in the production of the associated Safety Management Plan and to deliver the required safety analyses.  The initial emphasis will be progression of the Hazard Analysis, development of a Functional Failure Analysis and support to the development of an appropriate safety architecture (which will include a focus on the electronic and programmable aspects and the associated functional requirements).

Duties include:

• Hazard identification exercises (such as SWIFT and HAZOP)
• Hazard management and risk analysis, including fault tree and event tree analyses
• Thorough understanding and experience of how the hazard analysis process integrates with the system engineering process to influence the design
• Construction of safety arguments and their contribution to ALARP statements and authoring of Safety Cased Reports
• Provision of support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees
• Liaising with other functions in order to derive safety requirements and hazards
• Working with systems teams in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety requirements
• Understanding of DEF-STAN 00-056 (and, ideally, other similar international standards), including the ability to define and write Safety Management Plans that meet its requirements
• IEC 61508/DO178C/DO-254 knowledge (desirable)

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Demonstrable knowledge of, and proven ability in, the application of UK and International system engineering processes, particularly in safety-related systems and safety assessment processes
• Thorough understanding and knowledge of how the hazard analysis process integrates with the system engineering process to influence the design
• Ability to deliver supporting information (Safety Case Reports, Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FTA, etc)
• Detailed electronic engineering proven ability is highly desirable (education to degree or HND level or a comparable level of knowledge is preferred).

Additional

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.