Systems Safety Engineer: Unmanned Flight Innovator

Malloy Aeronautics Ltd.; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day fortnight

Pension plan

Annual bonus

Sick pay

Healthcare plan

Employee wellbeing support

Job summary

Malloy Aeronautics Ltd. in Berkshire, UK, is seeking a Safety Engineer to lead development and implementation of safety processes for UAS systems within a defence and commercial context.

Reporting to the Chief Engineer, you will drive safety cases, hazard analyses, and compliance with aviation standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain product integrity throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Qualified to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant STEM discipline.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar product safety engineering role within an aerospace company.
• Knowledge of key safety regulations and standards relating to UAS development.
• Experience engaging with project engineering teams ensuring all relevant safety considerations are captured.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation of aircraft and system / sub-system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle.
• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft, System and Sub-System System Safety Engineering tasks such as decomposition of safety requirements at all relevant product levels.
• Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports (ZHAs)
• Preliminary Hazard List (PHL)
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• System / Sub-System Hazard Analysis
• Validation of supplier safety analysis / documentation
• System / sub-system safety assessment reports, including safety analysis (fault tree analysis etc.)
• Ensuring that Certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety wrt Design Airworthiness requirements and identified hazards
• Assess customer deviations from the design for adverse impact on product integrity and identify recovery route
• Support the project teams, support and service engineering organisations with the generation of Risk Assessments, ensuring suitable justification exists for action and the adequacy of the proposed remedial / recovery action in mitigating Product safety risk / safety performance degradation
• Undertake the communication and management of residual risk through the appropriate process
• Manage and report any outstanding product integrity actions/issues through to closure

Skills

Safety engineering

Risk management

Regulatory standards

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Degree in STEM

Job description

Malloy Aeronautics Ltd. in Berkshire, UK, is seeking a Safety Engineer to lead development and implementation of safety processes for UAS systems within a defence and commercial context.

Reporting to the Chief Engineer, you will drive safety cases, hazard analyses, and compliance with aviation standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain product integrity throughout the lifecycle.