Product Safety Manager

Thales Group; Manor Park; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension plan

Private healthcare

Relocation support

Career development

Job summary

Thales Group in the UK is seeking a Product Safety Manager to lead safety engineering activities across complex projects within the UK Safety Team. You will support bids, develop safety plans, and mentor junior engineers while shaping safety culture and compliance.

Based in Crawley/Reading/Bristol, you will work on high-profile programmes with UK MOD and autonomous systems, ensuring robust safety cases and regulatory adherence throughout the product life cycle.

Qualifications

• A degree, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant subject area.
• Experience of Systems Safety Engineering activities in a complex, safety focused and regulated organisation (rail, aerospace, nuclear, oil & gas).
• Experience of implementing a safety management system at project level.
• Experience in planning and delivering safety engineering programmes of work.
• Extensive experience in System Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Common Cause Failure Analysis, FMEA, IHA, System Hazard Logs and Safety Case development.

Responsibilities

• Supporting bids, generating safety engineering estimates and leading work packages.
• Developing safety plans and ensuring implementation of the Thales UK SMS at project level.
• Mentoring junior Product Safety / Systems Safety Engineers.
• Leading and managing safety activities and assessments.
• Ensuring safety cases and ALARP arguments are robust and supported by evidence.
• Collaborating in multidisciplinary teams to identify and manage hazards and risks.

Skills

System Safety

Safety Management

FTA ETA FMEA

ALARP

Hazard Analysis

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Job description

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.

Our Product Safety Managers typically spend their days:

• 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

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

Location: Crawley, United KingdomThales 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.

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

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.

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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.

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Summary Location: Crawley; Reading; Bristol

Type: Full time