Product Safety Engineer

Thales; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Group is seeking a Product Safety Engineer to join a Crawley-based project team on a 9-month contract with hybrid working (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). You will own and deliver safety cases across safety-critical aerospace and defence products, supporting civil and defence domains.

The role requires extensive safety engineering experience and a solid grasp of relevant standards. You will work within the UK Safety Team, applying FTA/ETA/FMEA techniques, developing safety requirements,

Qualifications

• Proven ability in Systems Safety Engineering in Aerospace/Defence.
• Experience delivering safety cases and ALARP arguments.
• Experience implementing safety management systems at project level.
• Experience performing FTA/ETA/FMEA and related safety analyses.
• Knowledge of UK/EU/CAA safety regulatory frameworks.
• Familiar with Def Stan 00-56/00-55, EN 50126/28/29, IEC 61508.

Skills

Systems Safety

Safety Case Dev

Regulatory Knowledge

Hazard Analysis

ALARP Argumentation

Def Stan Standards

EN/IEC Standards

Job description

Product Safety Engineer

Crawley, hybrid working 3 days per week onsite – 9 month duration

We are looking to recruit a Product Safety Engineer to work for our client on a range of Aerospace & Defence projects. You will take responsibility for owning and delivering safety cases across safety critical products, hybrid working from the Crawley site with 3 days per week in the office 2 days working from home.

As a Product Safety Manager/Engineer you will have the opportunity to work across and influence our clients different businesses gaining experience in the civil and defence sectors, and in the land, aviation, maritime and autonomy domains. This could include products and technologies such as autonomous platforms (air and maritime), high performance sonar arrays, Air Traffic Management systems, electronic warfare & counter measure systems, to name a few. As part of the UK Safety Team you will have the opportunity to lead safety engineering activities on these complex and challenging projects while continuing to develop your safety engineering knowledge.

Requirements:

• Proven ability of Systems Safety Engineering activities in the Aerospace or Defence sector.
• Proven ability of working to a safety management system and implementing it at project level.
• Proven ability in planning and delivering safety engineering programmes of work.
• Extensive background undertaking Systems Safety activities including System Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Common Cause Failure Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA), System Hazard Logs, System Hazard Analysis Reports.
• Ability in the identification, capture and management of safety requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of legal & regulatory frameworks for safety (UK, EU, MAA, CAA etc.).
• Background of developing & managing safety cases and generating ALARP arguments.
• Knowledgeable about the application of standards such as Def Stans 00-56 & 00-55, EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129, IEC 61508.
• Aware of safety occurrence investigation principles and processes.

Security Clearance statement

Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC level minimum).