Systems Safety Engineer

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence organisation in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Systems Safety Engineer to lead safety engineering outputs for the Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) product range. The role involves extensive coordination with various teams to ensure high-quality safety assessments are delivered on time. Applicants must have a thorough understanding of safety evaluation processes and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers a hybrid working model and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension contribution up to 14%

Opportunity for paid overtime

Flexi Leave up to 15 additional days

Enhanced parental leave of up to 26 weeks

Subsidised meals and free car parking

Qualifications

• Experience in the preparation, planning, and delivery of hazard analysis and safety evaluation processes.
• Ability to coordinate seamlessly with system engineering processes.
• Knowledge of UK and International safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of safety engineering outputs for the CAMM product range.
• Coordinate with design engineers, project controllers, and customers.
• Deliver Hazard Analyses and Safety Case Reports.

Skills

Hazard analysis

Safety evaluation

Systems engineering standards

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Job description

Salary

Circa £60,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working

3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced systems safety engineer to lead the delivery of safety engineering outputs across the Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) family product range. If you have experience in the preparation, planning and delivery of hazard analysis and safety evaluation and assurance processes, along with the ability to coordinate them seamlessly with the system engineering process, this opportunity is for you.

As a team and independently, your role will involve central coordination between various teams including design engineers, project controllers, customers, and other stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality Hazard Analyses, Safety Case Reports, Safety Panels, and other systems safety engineering outputs. This will require dedicated effort and leadership to consistently deliver safe-by-design assurance and excellent international and UK MoD stakeholder management throughout the product development life cycle and up to in-service use.

By understanding the system and its operating context, you will decide what type of evidence will most cost-effectively show that the identified hazards have been mitigated to the customer’s satisfaction. This role is about balancing time and cost constraints to ensure that a convincing safety case, comprising appropriate evidence, is constructed. The role calls for pragmatism and a solid appreciation that safety results from good engineering, not just compliance with numerical targets.

Working within a matrix organisation.

What we're looking for from you

• Thorough understanding and experience of how the hazard analysis and safety evaluation processes integrate with the system engineering process.
• Ability to deliver Safety Case Reports and the supporting information (Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FTA, etc).
• Demonstrable knowledge of, and experience in, the application of UK and International safety and systems engineering standards, especially Def Stan 00-056.
• Good knowledge of complex electronic systems and the associated safety issues (but other engineering subject areas, such as design, software, manufacture, etc, will be considered for candidates with the right strengths in other areas).
• Pro‑active, self‑starter with strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary / multi‑national team, both within MBDA and with our customers.

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