Principal Safety Engineer - Maritime

Medirest Signature; Hedge End; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An engineering consultancy is seeking a Safety Engineering Consultant to manage various safety engineering projects for Defence clients. The ideal candidate will possess over 10 years of experience in high hazard environments and have knowledge of UK MOD maritime platforms. This role supports hybrid working and requires moderate UK travel.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in safety engineering management solutions in high hazard environments.
• Knowledge of UK MOD maritime platforms.
• Experience in developing safety cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional Safety Engineering projects ensuring quality and budget adherence.
• Manage projects individually or with a small team.
• Support with bids, proposals, analysis, and report writing.

Skills

Safety engineering management solutions

Hazard & Safety Risk Analysis

Reliability Workbench

Independent Safety Assurance

Relationship building

Education

Engineering background

Tools

ASCE

BowTie

ETA

FTA

Job description

RINA's Maritime Safety Consulting division is looking for an exceptional Safety Engineering Consultant to join a specialist and growing team, working for Defence clients across all naval platforms including surface ships, carrier, submarine and unmanned patrol vessels.This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and shape RINA's Safety and/or ISA capability, providing the Royal Navy with world class safety advisory services.

This role can be based out of Southampton, Chippenham, Leatherhead or Lincoln offices though RINA is smart/hybrid working organisation, so living within commuter distance of the office is not necessarily required. Moderate travel across the UK is required though.

The role

You will lead a variety of functional Safety Engineering projects to ensure requirements are delivered on time, to budget, and to the required quality.

You will manage projects either as an individual or managing a small team.

Support with bids, proposals, analysis and report writing.

Promote RINA's Safety capability to customers, providing expert counsel, through face-to-face liaison, relationship building and presentations.

Assist the Safety management team with augmenting safety capability to meet new and emerging market demands.

This is not a Health & Safety (HSE) role.

Qualifications & experience

At least ten years' experience in the application of safety engineering management solutions is high hazard environments.

Knowledge of UK MOD (Defence) maritime platforms.

Experience in conducting Hazard & Safety Risk Analysis or Independent Safety Assurance (ISA) projects and have developed safety cases.

Experience in the use and application of Safety Engineering tools such as Reliability Workbench, ASCE, BowTie, ETA and/or FTA.

Some working knowledge of the following Defence Standard 00-56 and regulations including DSA02-DMR.

An understanding of how UK MOD frameworks (i.e. Aurora) operate.

Some working knowledge of ASEMS, POSMS and POEMS processes.

You will have an engineering background.

Ideally you will have UK Security Clearance, or you must be a British citizen and be prepared to go through vetting.