Safety Engineer - Air Traffic Management

Ebeni; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ebeni’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) Safety Engineer role is to contribute to a range of projects for Airports, ATC centres, and defence partners. You will lead safety activities and develop evidence for safety cases, ensuring compliance with SMS and relevant regulations.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, manage workshops, and engage with regulators and clients. The position is hybrid with travel to client sites, including Aberdeen, and offers opportunities to grow your safety

Qualifications

• Experience in safety and risk, ideally in ATM/Aviation.
• Experience applying safety/risk processes to identify hazards and reduce risk.
• Ability to build strong client and colleague relationships.
• Attention to detail in complex situations.
• Excellent communication across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety tasks and small projects per Project Safety Plans and SMS.
• Identify and create evidence to support system safety requirements traceability.
• Participate in hazard identification and risk assessment workshops with customers.
• Develop safety arguments and safety cases for assurance and certification.
• Undertake safety analysis using regulatory requirements and tools.
• Liaise with developers, certification bodies, operators and regulators on safety.

Skills

Safety domain experience

ATC/Aviation experience

Hazard identification

Safety cases

Stakeholder management

Regulatory engagement

Job description

Safety Engineer – Air Traffic Management

Location:

Scotland
Hybrid Role - Frequent travel to client site in Aberdeen

A Forward-looking Engineering Company

Ebeni is involved in engineering projects and programmes in the Defence & Aerospace, Aviation, Rail, Nuclear, Automotive, Oil & Gas and Cyber & Digital sectors.

Ebeni is a people-centric company, respecting individual aspirations as well as promoting benefit to all: customers, employees and society. Our people, their skills, knowledge and experience, are our most valuable asset. We take pride in our reputation and recognise it is built on the commitment and dedication of our people.

Our core values – Excellence, Benefit, Integrity – are reflected in our name and underpin both how we do business and how we approach our work. In short, you can rely on Ebeni to deliver innovative solutions that assure the safety and security of your existing and emerging technologies.

Our Team

You will get involved in the development and delivery of equipment safety cases (Air Traffic Control Centres, Navaids, Radar, Voice Communications etc.) for major projects in the civil and defence domains. You will manage the delivery of safety assurance documents to support the acceptance & certification process. You will engage with key project to ensure new equipment is safe to enter operational service, in accordance with project schedules and appropriate regulation.

You will grow your functional safety experience, develop a practical knowledge of all safety tools, techniques and methodologies, and gain experience of dealing with multi-disciplinary teams, occasionally in an international environment, managing stakeholders, leading safety workshops and engaging with Regulatory authorities.

The Role

Ebeni’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) Business Unit is looking to recruit a bright, dynamic and energetic Safety Engineer to contribute to a variety of projects within Airports, Air Navigation Service Providers, Ministry of Defence, Regulators, Equipment Manufacturers (Air Traffic Control) and the Advanced Air Mobility and Drone domains. You will:

• Lead tasks and manage smaller projects while undertaking safety engineering activities as defined by Project Safety Plans and in compliance with the principles identified in Safety Management Systems (SMS).
• Identify and create evidence to support system assurance, using safety assessment techniques to support the traceability of system safety requirements to implementation and operation.
• Participate in / run hazard identification and risk assessment workshops with customers.
• Develop safety arguments and safety cases to support assurance and certification activities, including the identification of appropriate evidence to demonstrate that the arguments are reasonable, well-constructed and justified.
• Undertake safety analysis via application of appropriate regulatory requirements, legislation, tools and techniques.
• Liaise with system developers, certification bodies, Operators, Operational Engineering, Systems Engineering and Facilities Management as necessary, regarding safety.
  

Please note that all applicants must be able to obtain and/or maintain a valid security clearance.

Skills & Experience

We want engineers with experience working in safety and risk, ideally within the Air Traffic Management / Aviation market. You will have gained some of the below skills & experience:

• Safety domain experience preferably in Air Traffic Management, we will also consider experience gained within Defence & Aerospace, Nuclear, Oil & Gas or Rail.
• Demonstrable experience of the application of safety and risk engineering processes to identify hazards and vulnerabilities, author safety cases and justifications, assess risk and implement controls to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
• Ability to build effective and strong working relationships with clients and colleagues. To work effectively, professionally and proactively with people, in face-to-face meetings and through interaction by video calls, telephone and email.
• Attention to detail with an ability to work in a methodical manner and deal with complex situations.
• Able to communicate across all levels of the company. Articulate with an ability to negotiate, persuade and listen.

Personal Development

Ebeni put people first, and wellbeing is at the forefront of what we do. We provide opportunities for our people to develop and aim to provide a rewarding work life balance. Our success depends on motivated, committed, trusted employees, who feel they play a part in helping the business grow. All our consultants are assigned an experienced careers development coach to help you to progress within your journey.

Join Us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups and operate an inclusive recruitment process ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.