System Safety Engineering Lead Avionics

BAE Systems; Nog Tow; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is seeking a qualified individual for a safety engineering role in Warton, UK. The position involves maintaining the System Safety Assessment Report and conducting safety assessments. Applicants should have experience in system safety practices, a strong understanding of the 'V' lifecycle, and a knowledge of avionics processes. The role offers flexible working arrangements and includes competitive benefits such as a pension scheme and health plans.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in system safety working practices including Hazard Analysis and Safety Cases.
• Strong understanding of the 'V' lifecycle and system engineering principles.
• Knowledge of avionics development processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the D&C System Safety Assessment Report.
• Review design changes and generate safety statements.
• Support in-service queries and safety process change workshops.

Skills

System safety working practices

Hazard Analysis

Safety Cases

Fault Tree Analysis

Failure Modes

Avionics development processes

Tools

IBM Statemate

Reliability Workbench software

Job description

Location Warton, would also consider Prestwick - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to 62,498.00 dependent on experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Maintaining and updating the D&C System Safety Assessment Report.
• Reviewing design changes and generating safety statements.
• Reviewing Prelminary Hazard Analysis.
• Reviewing Safety Critical Functional Chains.
• Supporting in-service queries / incidents.
• Supporting safety process change workshops, and product safety forums.

Qualifications

• Experience in system safety working practices; e.g. Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analyis, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis.
• Strong understanding and experience of the "V" lifecycle, and system engineering principles.
• Knowledge of Avionics development processes and toolsets.
• Must be willing to show integrity in the quality and accuracy of work during periods of delivery pressure.

Highly desirable

• Working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming language.
• Experience using Reliability Workbench software.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Typhoon displays and control team

The team provides support to all of the LRIs within the D&C sub-system, with occasional tasks from IMRS and DASS. As such this role covers all of the different LRIs in the sub-system. The primary focus are the LRIs for which BAES develop application software, i.e. CIU, CSG and HEA, but other tasks cover both hardware aspects of these LRIs and all elements of the other D&C equipment.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.