Product Safety Engineer

JAM Recruitment; Filton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

I'm looking for a Product Safety Engineer to join the UK's leading Aerospace & Defence organisation, to be based at their site in Filton.

What you'll be doing:

1. Generating & evaluating Aircraft / System / Sub-System and Support Products / Goods design safety in support of Safety Qualification / Certification requirements definition and verification (Design Certification) throughout the Product lifecycle (Concept to Qualification / Product Acceptance) e.g. Preliminary Hazard identification and assessment, System / Sub-System / Equipment Hazard Analysis, Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) and System Safety Assessment Report, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA).
2. Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports (ZHAs) in support of the certification process or provision of inputs to partner companies.
3. Maintaining and updating the Platform and Support Product hazard logs.
4. Generating Support Products / Goods safety assessments and design safety justifications.
5. Reviewing Platform / Support Products certification evidence (inc. associated qualification evidence) and generating safety certification arguments / justifications to assert that the Platform / Support Products design is acceptability safe in support of the certification process.
6. Ensuring safety engineering evidence supports acceptable Safety Certification of the product design, and that Certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety.
7. Preparing safety certification material in support of the Project.
8. Undertake Weapon Platform emergent issue risk assessments, and support the Platform System / Sub-System areas and Support Products system design responsible areas undertake emergent issue risk assessments, in support of Continued Airworthiness and Through Life product safety.

Essential Skills:

1. HND/HNC/Degree or equivalent in a STEM subject, or relevant experience.
2. Safety Engineering experience/critical and analytical thinking along with excellent problem-solving skills.
3. Strong self-motivation and effective communication skills, both verbal and written.

Desirable Skills:

1. Knowledge and experience in Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering, Systems or Mechanical engineering and Safety Engineering in a Military Airborne Platform design environment.
2. Working knowledge and experience of Safety standards e.g. UK Regulatory Framework, Def-Stan 00-55/ 00-56, Mil-Std-882, DO-178, DO-254, ARP 4754, ARP 4761, EN 61508.
3. Working knowledge and experience of Safety toolsets e.g. Fault Tree Analysis +, Reliability Workbench, Goal Structured Notation (GSN).
4. Ability to engage with Senior technical and engineering leaders within the business and Senior external and Partner stakeholders.
5. Ability to lead and influence on the technical aspects and acceptability of Product Safety in a through-life capacity.

The salary is £45,000 to £50,000 plus benefits and is a hybrid-working role of 3x days per week on-site.

You MUST be able to obtain security clearance (SC) to be considered for this position.