System Safety Engineer 

Location:              Yeovil (2 days a week on site)

Duration:             12 months

Rate:                   48 per hour PAYE or 65 per hour Umbrella

Collaborating with the Systems Safety and Environmental Engineering Manager and working within the Safety team, you will undertake safety assessment of Over and Above tasking development and/or in-service System Safety activities in support of the UK MOD customer for aircraft.

The role has the following key responsibilities:

• Development of Operational, Product and System Safety artefacts and associated documentation in accordance with Defence Standard 00-056 for the programme such as the generation of:
  • Hazard Identification and Analysis including’
  • Hazard Logs’
  • Safety Cases, Safety Case Reports and Safety Arguments’
  • Loss model development.
• Ensure close liaison with other colleague, customer and supplier technical fields to ensure appropriate evidence is available to support the Safety Case.
• Support customer safety meetings and chair System Safety Working Groups
• Identify, supervise and implement risks, issues and opportunities and support the development of mitigation plans.
• Identify and apply appropriate safety legislation and regulations.
• Proactively support the further development, maintenance, review and update of safety process.
• Some UK travel may be required.

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Proven ability leading and developing Safety Assessments for aircraft training and associated synthetic training systems.
• Previous industry Safety Engineering knowledge in the Military Air environment. This should include application of Def Stan 00-056.
• Proven ability developing Safety Management Systems and in-service management of Safety Cases, and Hazard Logs.
• Knowledge with the use of common safety tools, such as CASSANDRA, BowTieXP, Adelard Assurance and Safety Case Environment.
• Proven ability identifying and applying appropriate safety legislation and regulations.
• Platform or system proven ability and product knowledge of UK military aircraft is highly desirable.

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.