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)
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