Product Safety Manager

Thales Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading training

Mentoring and coaching

Private healthcare

Job summary

Thales UK is recruiting a Product Safety Manager to lead safety engineering activities across complex platforms and systems. You will work within the UK Safety Team on multi-disciplinary projects, developing safety plans and contributing to robust safety cases for Thales products.

Join a world-class engineering environment with mentoring, progression pathways and opportunities across defence, space, aerospace and digital security sectors.

Qualifications

• Experience in systems safety engineering in a regulated industry.
• Demonstrated ability to manage safety programmes and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Support bids, generate safety engineering estimates and lead work packages.
• Develop safety plans and implement SMS at project level.
• Lead safety activities and ensure robust safety cases and evidence.

Skills

Systems Safety Engineering

Hazard and risk analysis

Regulatory compliance

Leadership/mentoring

Budgets & work package management

Safety case development

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

FTA/ETA/FMEA techniques

System Hazard Analysis

Job description

Introduction

Thales develop and engineer cutting edge 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.

We're recruiting due to a need to grow our subject matter expert Safety Engineering team.

Joining as a Product Safety Manager in this team, you'll gain experience across multiple niche areas during your time at Thales. You may begin life on a £300m+ programme, working directly with the UK MOD, next you might pivot to UAS and have instrumental involvement in Autonomous UAS development, or maybe you'll lead safety activities within our world-renowned simulation team.

Safety at Thales means joining an exceptionally skilled team within technical specialities, pursuing unique career paths spanning technical expertise, management and/or programmes. You'll be supported with mentors, academic links, progression plans, contractual development and treated as a priority for all internal opportunities within the team.

Responsibilities

• Supporting bids, generating safety engineering estimates and leading the work packages.
• Developing safety plans & ensuring the implementation of the Thales UK SMS at project level
• Applying and leveraging your knowledge of Systems Safety Engineering to complex systems and supporting/mentoring junior Product Safety / Systems Safety Engineers
• Leading, managing and sometimes undertaking systems safety activities and assessments
• Ensuring that Thales products are supported by robust safety cases and evidence
• Working in multidisciplinary project/product teams to identify and manage hazards and risks

Requirements / Expertise

• A degree, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant subject area
• Experience of Systems Safety Engineering activities in a complex, safety focused and regulated organisation, such as rail, aerospace, nuclear or oil & gas
• Experience of working to a safety management system and implementing it at project level
• Demonstrable experience in the management of engineering work packages & budgets
• Demonstrable experience in planning and delivering safety engineering programmes of work
• Extensive experience of 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
• Experience in the identification, capture and management of safety requirements
• Extensive knowledge of legal & regulatory frameworks for safety (UK, EU, MAA, CAA etc.)
• Experience of developing & managing safety cases and generating ALARP arguments
• Ability to work collaboratively in an engineering development environment, ensuring Systems Safety compliance is achieved throughout the project life cycle.
• Aware of safety occurrence investigation principles and processes

Security Clearance statement

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

What we can offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include bonus, a strong pension contribute plan, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.

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