Job summary

Our client, a leading organisation within the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking a Safety Engineer for a contract position.

Key skills required for this role

Safety Engineer, Hazop

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Safety Engineer

Job description

Location: Stevenage OR Bristol (onsite)

Duration: 12 month initial contract

Inside IR35

Role details:

The role is to deliver the safety analysis and assurance that will enable one of our clients products to be integrated onto a small range of platforms. This will involve working closely with internal delivery teams, as well as UK and non-UK customers.

The successful candidate will be required to liaise with key stakeholders to help define the safety boundary for the development of safety claims, and take a leading role in the production and evolution of the associated Safety Management Plans / delivery of the required safety analyses. The main emphasis will be on ensuring that the available evidence fulfils the need and, if gaps are identified, defining suitable mitigations.

Experience required:

• Hazard identification exercises (such as SWIFT and HAZOP);
• Hazard management and risk analysis, including functional failure, fault tree and event tree analyses;
• Thorough understanding 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, and 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;
• Detailed electronic engineering experience is highly desirable (education to degree or HND level or a comparable level of experience is preferred). Experience of other engineering disciplines (especially software) is also desirable.
• IEC 61508/DO178C/DO-254 experience (desirable).
• Good verbal, written communications analytical and problem solving skills.
• Track record as an effective team player with strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary / multi-national team.

If you are an experienced Safety Engineer looking for a new opportunity to further develop your career within the Defence sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team.