Safety & Reliability Engineer – Aerospace & Naval Systems

Alexander Mann Solutions - Contingency; West of England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Mann Solutions seeks a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join a highly specialised defence engineering team in Bristol on a 12-month contract. You will assess, predict and improve safety, reliability and maintainability for aero, naval and gas turbine applications across in-service and future platforms.

The role involves performing FMECA, FHA, FTA, QRA analyses, investigating failures, and applying statistical modelling to quantify risk, supporting reliability growth and informed

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a Safety & Reliability Engineer position or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience on developing new FMECA's and updating exiting packages.
• Strong understanding of FMECA, FMEA, Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and risk assessment methodologies.
• Good mathematical and statistical analysis skills.
• Experience investigating failures and determining their impact on system performance and operational capability.
• An engineering approach to problem-solving with the ability to evaluate incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Understanding of gas turbine principles and associated systems would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Perform Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Predictability assessments across defence and naval programmes.
• Conduct and create Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), including both new assessments and updates to historical documentation.
• Carry out Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA) and other safety engineering activities.
• Investigate in-service failures and determine root causes, failure mechanisms and operational impacts.
• Analyse component-by-component failure behaviour to understand system-level consequences.
• Apply statistical techniques and mathematical modelling to quantify uncertainty, failure rates and risk exposure.
• Support reliability growth activities and reliability predictions for new and existing products.

Skills

FMECA & FMEA

Hazard Analysis

Reliability Engineering

Gas Turbine Knowledge

Statistical Analysis

Risk Assessment

Failure Investigation

Job description

Alexander Mann Solutions seeks a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join a highly specialised defence engineering team in Bristol on a 12-month contract. You will assess, predict and improve safety, reliability and maintainability for aero, naval and gas turbine applications across in-service and future platforms.

The role involves performing FMECA, FHA, FTA, QRA analyses, investigating failures, and applying statistical modelling to quantify risk, supporting reliability growth and informed