Safety Engineer in Luton, Bedfordshire

Job Title: Safety Engineer

Duration - 12 months - likely to be extended

Location - Stevenage

Pay rate - Up to £60ph Umbrella

Due to the type of Defence project you will be working on, you will need to hold Security Clearance (SC) to be considered for this role.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join on of our largest UK Defence companies!

Overview of department:
This role is ideal for an engineer to exploit their safety engineering skills to influence the safety aspects of technically complex and challenging products. Whilst 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 successful candidate will be required to liaise with key stakeholders (i.e. MoD, the platform authority, the launcher authority, and stakeholders within the comapany) to define the safety boundary for the development of the Safety Case, and to define the organisation, roles and responsibilities for the safety programme. This will need to be agreed and documented in a Safety Management Plan (SMP) for the Assessment Phase. Later in the Assessment Phase, the emphasis will shift to Preliminary Hazard Analysis and supporting the development of an appropriate safety architecture.

In support of this, experience of the following is expected:
* Hazard identification exercises (SWIFT and HAZOP);
* Hazard management and risk analysis, including fault tree and event tree analyses;
* Construction of safety arguments and ALARP statements;
* Provision of support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees; (in conjunction with safety focal points)
*Assisting in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the safety case;
* 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, including the ability to write Safety Management Plans that meet its requirements.

Skillset/experience required:
Demonstrable knowledge of, and experience in, the application of UK and International system engineering processes, particularly in safety-related systems and safety assessment processes.
* Thorough understanding and experience 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 experience is highly desirable. Experience of other engineering disciplines (design, software, manufacture, etc.) is also 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.
* Stakeholder management..
* Customer/supplier interfacing skills
* Planning and organisation skills.

If you feel this is the role for you, please get in touch!

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.