System Safety Engineer — Rotorcraft & Unmanned Systems

Leonardo; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Coursera/LinkedIn Learning access

Private healthcare options

Pension scheme

Job summary

Leonardo UK in Yeovil seeks an experienced System Safety Engineer to contribute to the safe design of air vehicles and support a wide product range, from conventional helicopters to uncrewed systems. You will perform system safety analyses, author Functional Hazard Assessments, and support in-service modifications.

The role requires formal safety analysis training or equivalent experience, knowledge of Fault Tree+ and strong planning and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Training in the use of formal safety analysis methods, or alternatively extensive experience in the application of equivalent skills.
• Knowledge of specific IT tools such as Fault Tree+ or equivalent.
• The ability to plan and execute tasks to achieve timescales and costs.
• Good interpersonal skills to ensure effective team working and an appropriate working relationship with external customers.
• Proficiency in the use of general office IT tools, such as MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Responsibilities

• As part of the System Safety Engineering team you will carry out the system safety analysis activities for design and in-service support.
• Authoring Functional Hazard Assessments with technical specialists to influence safe design and certification.
• Perform detailed analysis of failure conditions to support safe design and certification of Leonardo products.
• Cover in-service support of existing Leonardo products, including development of necessary modifications.

Skills

Safety analysis

Task planning

Interpersonal skills

MS Office proficiency

Tools

Fault Tree+

Job description

Leonardo UK in Yeovil seeks an experienced System Safety Engineer to contribute to the safe design of air vehicles and support a wide product range, from conventional helicopters to uncrewed systems. You will perform system safety analyses, author Functional Hazard Assessments, and support in-service modifications.

The role requires formal safety analysis training or equivalent experience, knowledge of Fault Tree+ and strong planning and collaboration skills.