Safety Engineer Surrey Competitive + Excellent package

SmartSourcing Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense solutions provider is seeking a Principle Safety Engineer to oversee safety assurance for naval vessel management systems. You will lead safety activities, ensuring compliance with safety requirements, conducting audits, and developing documentation to support mission-critical operations. This role offers hybrid working, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible and hybrid working options

Compressed working schedule

Private health care

Performance bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in safety assurance activities related to hardware and software.
• Ability to lead safety audits and analysis impacting product design.
• Understanding of latest safety standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety activities to meet customer's safety targets.
• Ensure high-quality technical documentation in accordance with standards.
• Supervise and develop junior employees and mentor as required.

Skills

Safety Compliance

Technical Documentation

Safety Auditing

Team Collaboration

Mentorship

Education

Degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Principle Safety Engineer - Hardware and Software - Surrey -Hybrid

Our global client are specialists in their field of military, defence and cyber solutions and their work is critical to the security of the world we live in today.

This is a unique opportunity for a Functional Safety Engineer to be the lynchpin for safety assurance activities on cutting-edge infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems- including both surface ships and submarines.

You will play a critical role leading safety activities regarding the development of the product and the provision of support to mission-critical naval operations products.

Operating as a centre of excellence for systems and software, they develop and support internationally deployed command and control solutions.

Benefits

Flexible and hybrid working options

Compressed working schedule

Private health care

Performance bonus.

Your Mission in the Company:

Report to the Product Safety Manager.

Derive safety activities and work schedules required by the programme to deliver agreed project milestones and satisfy safety requirements.

Leading safety activities to ensure that the customer's safety targets, and derived safety targets can be met by the system design, considering relevant aspects of Hardware, Software and Firmware.

Leading safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.

Ensuring technical documentation is produced to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures.

Leading analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions propose by the engineering teams.

Presenting complex and well-reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders in order to influence their consideration of safety decisions.

Working collaboratively within multi-disciplined teams to maximise the company's reputation by generating high quality and well-reasoned outputs

Awareness of latest standards and best practices to drive improvement

Provide input to the Monthly Staff Meeting, Team Briefings and SOFT report.

Supervision and development of other employees as required. May be requested to act as a mentor to more junior employees.

Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required

SmartSourcing are a Disability Confident Employer and we promote, celebrate and value diversity, we are committed to promoting equality and inclusion for all.