Senior Weapons, Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives Safety Engineer

AtkinsRéalis; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a senior professional to lead WOME safety engineering and assurance across defence projects. You will develop safety cases, provide technical direction, and work with clients, operators and suppliers to ensure risks are reduced to tolerable levels throughout the lifecycle.

The role requires extensive experience in defence safety disciplines, strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence decision-making in high-hazard environments.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience delivering WOME safety engineering, explosives safety or ordnance assurance in a defence environment.
• Experience leading safety cases, hazard-management activities or complex safety work packages.
• Sound knowledge of systems engineering and how safety evidence supports decisions across the capability lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead WOME safety engineering and assurance across conventional, novel and complex defence projects.
• Develop, maintain and assure WOME safety cases, safety assessments and hazard logs.
• Provide technical direction on hazard identification, risk assessment and safety requirements.
• Shape evidence strategies for acquisition, integration, trials and through-life support.
• Advise clients, operators and partners on proportionate WOME safety solutions.

Skills

WOME safety engineering

Safety leadership

Hazard analysis

Stakeholder management

Technical judgment

Education

Engineering qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Are you an experienced safety practitioner ready to lead specialist work in weapons, ordnance, munitions and explosives? Do you want to shape assurance approaches, guide teams and influence decisions across high-hazard, conventional and novel technologies?

We're expanding our defence WOME safety capability. Join us to lead safety engineering and assurance from acquisition and platform integration through trials, qualification, operation and through-life support.

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organisation delivering complex and critical programmes across defence, aerospace, nuclear and other highly regulated sectors.

Join our established Safety & Environmental Assurance community; knowledge sharing and collaboration are at the heart of what we do.

You'll benefit from:

• Formal technical assurance, peer review and access to experienced WOME safety specialists.
• Domain Communities of Interest and professional networks.
• Regular team meetings, knowledge-sharing events and informal mentoring.
• Career development support aligned wherever possible to your experience, interests and goals.

We aim to align assignments with your skills, interests and career goals while balancing client and business needs. We welcome senior WOME specialists and safety leaders from industry, MOD and the Armed Forces, including those transferring from air, land or maritime domains and those returning after a career break.

Assignments could include:

• Leading safety engineering and assurance across weapon, munition, explosives, system and integrated-platform levels.
• Shaping the safety assessment and assurance of conventional and novel weapon integration, including Directed Energy Weapons, across land, air and maritime platforms.
• Providing technical leadership for trials safety, test and evaluation, verification and validation, qualification and introduction into service.
• Leading explosives safety and ordnance assurance across storage, transport, handling, operation, maintenance, disposal and other through-life activities.

Your role

• You will lead proportionate WOME safety engineering and assurance across conventional, novel and complex defence projects. You will provide technical direction and trusted advice, develop robust safety arguments and evidence strategies, assure outputs and help clients make informed decisions across the capability lifecycle.
• Lead WOME safety work packages, balancing technical quality, schedule, cost and client priorities.
• Lead the development, maintenance and assurance of WOME safety cases, safety assessments, safety management plans, hazard logs and supporting evidence.
• Provide technical direction on hazard identification, risk assessment, safety requirements and the demonstration that risks are reduced to a tolerable level.
• Shape evidence strategies supporting acquisition, integration, trials, qualification, acceptance, introduction into service and continued operation.
• Advise clients, operators, designers, delivery partners, suppliers, trials organisations and assurance authorities on proportionate WOME safety solutions.
• Lead or support safety working groups, hazard reviews, assurance reviews and multidisciplinary engineering decisions.
• Review and assure technical outputs, guide teams and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Help develop future work by understanding emerging client needs, strengthening relationships and supporting follow-on activity where appropriate.

About you

Essential experience and attributes

• Substantial experience delivering WOME safety engineering, explosives safety, ordnance assurance or a closely related safety discipline in a defence environment.
• Experience leading safety cases, safety assessments, hazard-management activities or complex safety work packages.
• Sound knowledge of systems engineering and how safety evidence supports decisions across the capability lifecycle, with the technical judgement to develop proportionate, defensible solutions where information is incomplete or evolving.
• Confident client-facing communication, stakeholder management and production of high-quality technical deliverables.
• A relevant technical qualification or demonstrable equivalent professional experience from the Armed Forces, MOD or industry.

Desirable experience

• Strong experience applying safety-case, hazard-analysis or assurance techniques such as Claims, Arguments and Evidence, Goal Structuring Notation, ALARP demonstration, HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, ETA or Bow Tie analysis.
• Detailed knowledge of current Defence Safety Authority OME Regulations, related Defence Codes of Practice and relevant legislative requirements, including the Explosives Regulations 2014 and the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations.
• Knowledge of relevant general and WOME-related Defence Standards, NATO Standardization Agreements, Allied Ordnance Publications and United States Military Standards, including Def Stan 00-056, 00-035, 00-101, 07-085, 59-114 and 59-411.
• Experience leading WOME safety management, trials safety, qualification, storage, transport, handling, operation, maintenance or disposal activities.
• Experience using digital safety, requirements or risk-management tools.
• Experience helping to shape future requirements or activities, for example by identifying emerging needs, developing options, supporting continuation or follow-on work, or contributing to proposals or bids.
• Professional registration or active progress towards IEng or CEng, and membership of a relevant institution such as IExpE, IET, SaRS, IMechE or RAeS.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Rewards and benefits – Careers at AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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