Posted 6 days ago
Description
Location: Southampton, approximately 90% onsite
Hours: 37 hours per week
IR35 status: Inside IR35
Security requirements: Sole UK nationality and eligibility for SC clearance. Candidates may be able to start on BPSS while SC clearance is progressed.
We are recruiting a Lead / Principal System Safety Engineer to support a major defence aerospace technology programme, integrating advanced sensing, communications and electronic systems onto a flight test aircraft.
You will lead system safety activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams, ensuring that subsystem, integrated system and aircraft-level safety assessments align.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of system safety assessments and supporting documentation.
- Provide specialist safety advice to the engineering and design authority teams.
- Ensure safety activities follow the programme’s Safety Management Plan.
- Identify and assess system hazards, defining mitigations to reduce risks to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
- Define safety requirements and allocate them to the appropriate subsystems and engineering teams.
- Review subsystem safety analyses and incorporate findings into the overall system assessment.
- Ensure alignment between system and aircraft-level safety analyses.
- Identify and communicate safety dependencies across teams and systems.
- Present safety assessment findings at design reviews.
- Safety analysis of complex systems within a safety-critical industry.
- Experience across multiple phases of the engineering lifecycle.
- Leading and delivering safety work packages across multiple teams.
- Understanding of aircraft-level safety regulations and analysis.
- Ability to assess complex system interactions and dependencies.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A commitment to promoting and improving safety culture.
- Knowledge of ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C.
- Experience working with complex designs and technical uncertainty.
- Knowledge of lasers, radar, sensors or defensive aids systems.
- Awareness of information security.
- Experience with Cameo Systems Modeler, IBM DOORS, Adelard ASCE or Isograph Reliability Workbench.
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