Safety Engineer Location: Newcastle or Edinburgh, 3 days a week on site Rate: £70 p/h Umbrella Duration: 12 Months Inside IR35 SC Clearance required. Key Responsibilities • Day to day, you will be conducting safety assessments and supporting projects on all safety issues, working closely with project leadership and other engineers in a variety of disciplines. You will: • Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support • Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them • Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree analysis, scenario analysis, and various other techniques • Document and present the outcomes of safety analysis to stakeholders • Generate safety requirements to meet customer and/or regulatory safety target requirements • Work closely with many different engineering disciplines, customers, partners and suppliers to help solve complex problems • Support audits as required • Promote the specialism and Safety Culture within the project(s) • Contribute to continual improvement of the Company Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System Key Skillset Essential • Knowledge of safety analysis in a safety-critical industry on complex systems • Knowledge across a number of engineering lifecycle phases • Exposure to at least one of: ARP4754A, ARP4761, RTCA DO-254, or DO178C • Background of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities Desirable • Proven ability across a number of sub-system teams to develop the system solution • Proven ability with a high degree of design complexity and significant levels of uncertainty • Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, and/or sensors and defensive aids systems • Awareness of Information Security • Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as via the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) or Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC)