At Dstl, our vision is to have a modern way of working efficiently, accommodating and enabling our people to create, collaborate and deliver. To do this successfully in this job will require attendance at a Dstl location; Government Departments including wider MoD or Delivery and Mission Partner’s premises for 60% of your working time. Where business needs allow, and with the agreement of your line manager, there may be the option for a combination of workplace and home-based working.This is a non-contractual arrangement.
About the job Job summary
Are you a Functional Safety Specialist looking for a new challenge?
If so, this could be the role for you!
In this role you will bring excellent leadership skills with a passion for Health & Safety to play an integral role at Dstl to develop, maintain and evolve Dstl’s built estate.
This role requires you to be able to drive the business forward implementing the highest standards of safety, supporting initiatives, and ensuring the continuous improvement within our safety practices and thinking across Dstl to ensure our values are met.
Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.
Job description
In this role you will:
Provide Functional Safety leadership for Dstl including:
* Developing Functional Safety policy and procedures
* Undertaking Functional Safety inspection and auditing activities
* Performing Safety-related systems requirements capture and analysis
* Working with Dstl Operations to develop Functional Safety requirements for new or change building projects
* Supporting investigation of incidents, dangerous occurrences and near-miss investigations involving safety-related systems.
Person specification
We are looking for someone who has:
* Proven expertise in Safety Integrity Level (SIL) requirements capture and analysis
* Practical experience and understanding of managing risks in process safety/high hazard environments
* Proven expertise in Safety Integrity Level (SIL) requirements capture and analysis.
Please see full job description for skills and experience If you have all this, we want to hear from you now! – come join our team and make a difference
Important Information
Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.
This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.
Qualifications
Degree-level qualification in an engineering discipline, or equivalent industrial experience.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Making Effective Decisions
* Communicating and Influencing
* Seeing the Big Picture
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
* Leadership
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £57,297, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £16,598 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Benefits
Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:
* Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.
* Flexible working:Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).
* Working hours:Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.
* Where you work:Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.
* Annual leave:25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.
* Family:Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
* Learning and Development:Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.
* Facilities:Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.
Things you need to know Selection process details
This vacancy is usingSuccess Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
We want you to have your best chance of success in our recruitment process, so If at any stage of the application process you would like help or assistance please contact the Dstl Recruitment Team dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk and we will do all we can to support you.
Sifting will take place week commencing the 23rd June 2025 with interviews to be arranged from the 14th July 2025, interviews will consist of a combined technical & behavioural interview to include a presentation, details of which will be provided at invite to interview
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed issecurity check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must completebaseline personnel security standard (opens in new window)checks.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.
Working for the Civil Service
TheCivil Service Code (opens in a new window)sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission'srecruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window)and theCivil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants Job contact :
* Name :Dstl HR Recruitment
* Email :dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk
* Recruitment team
* Email :dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk
* Further information
Should you wish to raise a formal complaint about the Dstl recruitment process you should email dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk stating the nature of the issue. We will respond within 5 working days.
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