System Safety Engineer in Bedfordshire

System Safety Engineer
Permanent
Full time - 4-day hybrid working model (2 days on site)
Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Are you looking to work for a company with excellent backing which will stand out on your career path?
Are you searching for a company that will not just encourage your personal and professional goals but ensure your contributions will make a direct impact in the defence industry?

Our client, who is a well-established, diverse mission critical and highly secure systems provider, are looking for experienced System Safety Engineers to join their team.

As a System Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for:
* Evolve / review safety designs for products, associated support equipment and facilities, functional specifications and operations, and establishment of safety requirements for assigned systems.
* Experience of Ordnance.
* Focus on directing members of the team to meet critical schedules, resolution of complex technical and operational performance problems.
* Participation within projects in establishing the content and degree of support required for each Project.
* Development of acceptable risk criteria from first principles.
* Development of Independent analysis and mitigation identification to control or eliminate hazards.
* Development of definition and deliver hazard identification and hazard analysis requirements using appropriate hazard analysis types and techniques.
* Development and delivery of appropriate ALARP strategies.
* Development and delivery of safety management of potentially hazardous trials.
* Development and delivery of safety documents as required to support customer and test/operational range requirements.
* Participate in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assists in identification of causes and corrective actions.
* Evaluate the interrelationship of system safety requirements and other aspects of concept design and development requirements to ensure the most cost-effective program.

Essential Skills:
* Qualified to degree or equivalent standard in an engineering subject or equivalent experience/combined education with professional experience, or professional experience with a related Master's degree.
* Proven experience in a safety-associated role, preferably in a defence related industry. That experience to include the determination and allocation of SILs.
* Detailed understanding and experience of UK, US and EEC Safety Legislation.
* Fully familiar with the relevant Joint Service Publications and Defence Standards associated with safety assessment of defence equipment.
* Experience with IT based tool-sets common to the system safety discipline.
* Competent in the use of MS-Office applications.
* The role will require the candidate to have good verbal and written skills.

Desired Skills:
* Implementation of IEC61508.
* Experience in the Systems Safety of OME products.
* Working knowledge and understanding of the UK MoD Design Certification and clearance process.
* Professionally Registered ideally at Chartered Status

System Safety Engineer
Permanent
Full time - 4-day hybrid working model (2 days on site)
Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

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.