Senior Safety Engineer

Northrop Grumman UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Performance bonuses

Training and certification opportunities

Flexible working options

Job summary

A leading defence technology company in London is seeking a Safety Engineer to ensure safety assurance for naval vessel systems. The role requires collaboration in a multidisciplinary team to impact design decisions and support safety audits. Candidates should have relevant safety engineering experience and a degree in Engineering or Safety Management. This position offers flexible working options, private health care, and professional growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment.
• Awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508.
• Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Product Safety Manager and support safety activities.
• Generate safety requirements for systems.
• Produce technical documentation to high standards.

Skills

Safety assurance

Hazard identification and analysis

Functional Failure Analysis

Fault Tree Analysis

FMECA

Understanding of failure modes

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s degree or Bachelor's in Engineering or Safety Management

Tools

Risk Assessment tools

Job description

Overview

At Northrop Grumman UK, our mission is to solve the most complex challenges by shaping the technology and solutions of tomorrow. We call it Defining Possible. This is more than just a job; it’s a mission.

As a Senior Safety Engineer, you’ll provide safety assurance on the design, development, and maintenance of cutting-edge infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems – including both surface ships and submarines. You will play a crucial role in both the development of the product and the provision of support to mission-critical naval operations. Reporting to the Product Safety Manager and as a valued member in the Safety Engineering team.

Safety engineering activities include Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA).

Our UK Defence business is a Sovereign software and systems centre of excellence. We develop and support UK-wide and internationally deployed multi-domain command and control systems, contributing to the modern backbone of the Royal Navy.

We seek to solve the world’s most challenging problems with curiosity, dedication, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Product Safety Manager, under the guidance of Principal Safety Engineers.
• Undertake safety activities required by the programme.
• Generate safety requirements for the system to meet customer safety targets and derived safety targets (e.g., random hardware failure probabilities; systematic safety integrity level (SIL) targets for hardware, software and firmware).
• Deliver safety products and activities on a complex project, supporting project milestones and safety objectives.
• Support safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.
• Produce technical documentation to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures.
• Undertake analyses that positively impact design decisions and solutions proposed by the engineering teams.
• Support the generation of safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders to influence safety decisions.
• Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams to enhance NG’s reputation by generating high quality and well-reasoned outputs.
• Travel to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required.
• Contribute to flexible and hybrid working options and participate in benefit programmes discussed with the recruitment team.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment.
• Awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056.
• Awareness of safety assurance of COTS PE-based systems or high integrity software.
• Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects.
• Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis.
• Awareness of tools and techniques used in Risk Assessments and developing ALARP justifications.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. systems, hardware, software and ILS engineers, project management, customer and supplier engineering teams).
• Master’s degree, Degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline.
• Security clearance: You must be able to gain and maintain relevant UK Government security clearance in line with the job role (SC). Our recruitment team can assist with questions: [e-mail].

Benefits & Work Arrangements

• End-to-End Involvement: Be part of a team responsible for the development of control systems products, ensuring safety, performance, and compliance.
• Innovative Projects: Work on the design and delivery of next-generation infrastructure for naval platforms.
• Diverse Technology Stack: Apply safety techniques and arguments to complex IT/OT architectures.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for training, certification, and experience in the defence sector.
• Impactful Work: Work in a regulated environment with tangible real-world outcomes.
• Flexible and hybrid working options, including occasional compressed schedules with every other Friday off.
• Private health care and performance bonuses; comprehensive benefits discussed with the recruitment team.

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting
• Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing

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