Lead System Safety Engineer

Morson Talent; Luton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Lead System Safety Engineer for a site-based role in Luton. You will provide specialist safety advice, ensure compliance with safety management plans, and lead safety analysis on complex systems. Essential skills include experience in safety-critical industries and stakeholder engagement. This contract has a duration of 6 months with an IR35 classification.

Qualifications

• Experience of safety analysis of complex systems in a safety-critical industry.
• Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases.
• Experience in leading and delivery a safety work package across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist safety advice to support authorization of Product safety.
• Ensure safety activities follow the management plan and are correctly analyzed.
• Identify and analyze intrinsic and functional hazards to reduce safety risks.

Skills

Safety analysis of complex systems

Engineering lifecycle knowledge

Leadership in safety work packages

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeler

IBM DOORS

Adelard ASCE

Isograph Reliability Work Bench

Job description

Overview

Lead System Safety Engineer. Location: Luton, mostly site based. Rate: £65 p/h PAYE or £87.70 ph Umbrella. Duration: 6 Months. Inside IR35. SC Clearance required.

Within Team Tempest, Leonardo UK is developing a suite of Integrated Sensor And Non-Kinetic Effects (ISANKE) and Integrated Communications Systems (ICS) subsystems. This effort is coordinated by, and delivered to, the Future Combat Air Sector within Leonardo UK as a cross-Line of Business (XLoB) activity. The ISANKE and ICS equipment will be physically integrated onto a donor platform to deliver a Flight Test Aircraft (FTA) for test, development and demonstration purposes.

Responsibilities

• Providing specialist safety advice to the SDA, to support their authorization of the Product safety, in accordance with Company processes
• Ensuring that safety activities conducted on the Programme, within the scope of the TDP Systems, follow the plan described in the safety management plan and that the analysis is complete and correct.
• Identifying and analysing intrinsic hazards, including mitigation to reduce the residual safety risks to an ALARP level for the ISANKE and ICS TDP system
• Identifying and analysing functional hazards, including mitigation to reduce the residual safety risks to an ALARP level for the ISANKE and ICS TDP system
• Eliciting ISANKE and ICS TDP safety requirements and flowing these down to the appropriate level
• Reviewing individual TDP Subsystem System safety analysis and incorporating the outcomes in the integrated ISANKE and ICS analysis.
• Reviewing aircraft level safety analysis and ensuring it aligns with ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety analysis
• Documenting the integrated ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety assessment as described in the safety management plan.
• Presenting a summary of the integrated ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety assessment at the ISANKE and ICS TDP Design Reviews.

Key Skillset

Essential:

• Experience of safety analysis of complex systems in a safety-critical industry
• Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases
• Experience in leading and delivery a safety work package across multiple teams
• Knowledge of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities

Desirable:

• Knowledge of ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254, or DO-178C
• Knowledge 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)
• Cameo Systems Modeler
• IBM DOORS
• Adelard ASCE
• Isograph Reliability Work Bench