Senior Product Safety Engineer – Hybrid (UK)

Thales Group; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension plan

Private healthcare

Relocation support

Learning & development

Job summary

Thales Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Safety Engineer to join the UK Safety Team on a hybrid basis across Bristol, Reading or Crawley. You will lead safety engineering activities on complex projects while ensuring robust safety cases and compliance throughout the lifecycle.

The role involves mentoring colleagues, working on systems development, and opportunities across autonomous platforms, avionics, and simulation teams.

Qualifications

• Experience of Systems Safety/Product Safety/Safety Engineering activities in a complex, safety focused and regulated organisation, such as rail, aerospace, defence, medical, nuclear or oil & gas.
• Experience of preparing Safety Cases and familiar with ALARP principles and arguments.
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking Product 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.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an engineering development environment, ensuring Systems Safety compliance is achieved throughout the project life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Developing safety plans & ensuring the implementation at project level
• Applying and leveraging your knowledge of Systems Safety Engineering to complex systems and supporting/mentoring junior Product Safety / Systems Safety Engineers
• 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
• Undertaking Systems Safety activities and assessment
• Working across a range of activities at various stages of the systems engineering lifecycle.

Skills

Systems Safety

Product Safety

Safety Engineering

Collaboration

Tools

FTA

ETA

FMECA

Job description

Thales Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Safety Engineer to join the UK Safety Team on a hybrid basis across Bristol, Reading or Crawley. You will lead safety engineering activities on complex projects while ensuring robust safety cases and compliance throughout the lifecycle.

The role involves mentoring colleagues, working on systems development, and opportunities across autonomous platforms, avionics, and simulation teams.