Maritime Systems Safety Group Lead

MBDA; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 21%

Pension up to 14%

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave up to 26 weeks

Subsidised meals and free car parking

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA is seeking a Maritime Safety Group Lead to manage the delivery of hazard analyses, safety cases and other safety outputs across multiple Weapon System projects. You will lead and develop about 10 safety engineers to ensure on-time, on-cost and on-quality deliveries.

The role blends people management with hands-on technical safety work, with half focusing on mentoring and processes, and the other half delivering evidence-based safety arguments.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Hazard Analyses and Safety Cases.
• Ability to integrate safety evaluation with systems engineering.
• Strong leadership for a multi-national team.
• Degree qualification preferred.
• BPSS security checks after offer stage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Maritime Safety Group Lead team to deliver safety outputs across multiple weapon system projects.
• Develop and mentor ~10 safety engineers to ensure on-time, on-cost and on-quality deliveries.
• Collaborate with design engineers, project controllers, customers and stakeholders.
• Balance people management with technical safety output and evidence-based safety arguments.

Skills

Safety case development

Hazard analysis

Team leadership

Systems engineering integration

Stakeholder liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

FTA

Def Stan 00-056

Job description

Attention Systems Safety Domain Leaders! If you have detailed understanding and experience in the management and delivery of Weapon System hazard analysis and safety evaluation and assurance processes, along with the ability to integrate them seamlessly with the systems engineering process, this opportunity is for you. Are you ready to take on the challenge of shaping safety practices in cutting-edge products?

Salary: Circa £70,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week onsite due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Safety and Reliability Engineering Department as we build our team, our processes and our capabilities to respond to current and future product design and assurance needs that embrace rapid development and digital transformation. A vacancy is available for a Maritime Safety Group Lead to manage the delivery of safety engineering outputs across multiple Weapon System projects. You will be responsible for developing approximately 10 safety engineers with varying levels of experience to ensure project deliveries are achieved on-time, on-cost and on-quality. Supported by other Group Leads, Technical Experts and a Maritime Safety Technical Specialist this role requires a strong systems safety certification background to diversify, challenge, and complement the existing team structure. Working within a matrix organisation structure, you will be accountable to the Weapon System Chief Systems Engineer of each project and the Department Head of Safety and Reliability.

The Role

Within the Maritime Safety Group Lead team and independently, your role will involve liaising with design engineers, project controllers, customers and other stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality Hazard Analyses, Safety Case Reports and other safety engineering outputs, including your own. Approximately 50% of the role is people management and function improvement. You will play a crucial role in re-shaping department delivery of a safety engineering capability. The remaining 50% will be your own technical safety output. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer to exploit their leadership skills to influence the safety aspects of technically sophisticated and exciting products using a range of techniques and approaches.

By understanding the system and its operating context, you will decide what type of evidence will most cost-effectively show that the identified hazards have been mitigated to the customer’s satisfaction. This role is about balancing time and cost constraints to ensure that a convincing safety case, comprising appropriate evidence, is constructed.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to generate and deliver Safety Case Reports and the supporting information (Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FTA, etc) to show that the identified hazards have been mitigated to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Thorough understanding and experience of how safety evaluation processes integrate with a systems engineering product certification process.
• Track record as an effective team leader with strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary / multi-national team, both within MBDA and with our customers.
• A passion for developing others to ensure that as a team you are adequately staffed across each project, and that engineers are available to work on tasks that best match their skill sets and skill levels.
• Demonstrable knowledge of, and experience in, the application of UK and International safety and system engineering processes, especially Def Stan 00-056.
• Highly adaptable and organised individual good at planning workloads and delegating tasks.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A passion for continuous improvement.
• Good verbal, written communications.
• Ideally degree qualified or equivalent.

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