Role: Senior/Principal Safety Engineer
Location: Southampton(3 days remote, 2 days onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Inside IR35: Umbrella
About our Client:
Our client is a leading UK-based defence and security company, supporting government and commercial partners through advanced research, technology development, and specialist services. They play a key role in enhancing national security, innovation, and operational capability across critical domains.
Key responsibilities:
Advice to customer with safety management arrangements for defence land based systems.
compliance with Def Stan 00-056, 00-055, 61508, POSMS
Chair Hazard workshops
Hazard log
Identification of derived safety requirements
Safety argument for a computer based system, software and data integrity
Safety and Environmental Case report
Safety and Environmental Management plan (updates)
working within our client's team of other SMEs
reach back to software safety assurance expertise
Agile lifecycle -experience of collaborative working in multi discipline teamsExperience required:
Need to be self-starter work on own initiative confident interacting with customers.
Ability to lead workshops and safety discussions.
Sufficient experience of 61508.
Agile methods
Cloud based systems.
Principles of data safety.
Please apply if you want to be part of leading global defence company!
Due to the nature of the work carried out at our client's site, these roles are subject to specific nationality requirements and are only open to sole British citizens. Candidates who meet this criterion will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting