Location: Reading, United Kingdom Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Product System Engineer Reading L08 Main Responsibilities Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Undertaking activities identified in Safety Management Plans as directed by the Project Safety Manager; - Recording and archiving project safety requirements and ensuring they are included on the project design baseline; - Identifying and analysing accidents, hazards and risks; - Creating and maintaining project Hazard Logs, including appropriate traceability to the Causes, Consequences, Risk Control Measures, Assumptions, etc.; - Collating and configuring evidence necessary to complete Safety Assessments/Cases; - Capturing, reporting and resolving safety issues, and - Creating reports and artefacts to support safety assessments/cases, including deliverable items. The candidate will demonstrate the following skills & knowledge - Working knowledge of Safety Management System processes, having regularly implemented SMS processes to meet project requirements. - Familiar with different types of safety analysis techniques (FTA, Event Tree, FMECA, RBD, LOPA, QRA) and their application. - Understands safety assessment processes, how they meet requirements and haveimplemented them on safety programmes. - Familiar with, and understands the requirements and purpose of Safety Management Plans, having implemented them for a simple products and managedthe work package activities. - Familiar with processes by which safety requirements are captured, recorded andmanaged. - Knows standards and can identify sources of safety requirements (Def Stan, BSEN, ISO, IEC, etc.) - Understands that products must comply with legal and regulatory requirements (HASAWA, UK SI's, EU Product Directives etc.). - Implementing techniques (compliance matrices and other methods) to ensure that safety requirements are identified and met. - Good working knowledge of formal Hazard ID and risk assessment methodologies (HAZID, HAZOP, FHA, BowTies etc.) knowing which is appropriate to use, having implemented on projects. Knows how to create, populate and maintain a hazard log. - General awareness that 3rd party organisation SMS, processes and products must be assessed and safety requirements flowed down - Familiar with the legal requirements (MAA RA's, DMR, LSSR etc.) that require safety arguments/cases to be generated and has created safety arguments/cases for simple products. - Familiar with the requirements for occurrence investigation of incidents. - Contributed to the production of root cause analysis, incident reports and aided in the communication of lessons learnt. - General awareness of the basic safety engineering techniques, concepts and tools (BowTieXP, RWB, FaultTree, eCassandra, DOORS) and have applied some to their work. Required Experience - Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience. - Desirable: Masters Degree (MEng, MSc) or postgraduate level in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics-related subject is an advantage. - HNC/HND qualification may be acceptable with relevant experience in the technical areas indicated above Connect with Fiona Tal, Talent Acquisition Partner LI-FT1 who is eager to explore together with you this exciting opportunity. This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with add In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency. At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles. Great journeys start here, apply now!