Experienced or Senior System Safety Engineer

Boeing; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Relocation assistance

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

The Boeing Company in Houston, TX is seeking an Experienced or Senior System Safety Engineer to join the team. You will develop analyses, safety requirements, and verifications to ensure ISS systems are safe for flight crews and on-orbit operations, coordinating with NASA and international partners.

Responsibilities include leading hazard analyses, reviewing system designs, producing safety documentation, and presenting to NASA and Boeing safety boards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Experience writing hazard reports.
• Experience presenting hazard reports to customer boards and/or review panels.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-based hazard analyses at a system level with cross-functional safety team.
• Review system-level concepts and designs to ensure safety against NASA requirements.
• Develop and maintain safety documentation and support safety panel reviews.
• Identify and quantify safety risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Prepare safety reports and recommendations for NASA and Boeing Safety boards.
• Collaborate with NASA experts to ensure hazard analyses and fault management meet contract requirements.
• Lead safety reviews and present rigorous safety approaches to review boards.

Skills

Hazard analysis

Safety case development

Safety requirements

Presenting safety reports

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Job description

Experienced or Senior System Safety Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS) is looking for a System Safety Engineer to join the team in Houston, TX. In collaboration with the program safety team, you will be responsible for developing the analyses, requirements, and verifications needed to ensure that all ISS system required for both docking and robotic-captured vehicles are safe for flight crew members as well the on-orbit ISS crew.

Primary responsibilities

• Works with our Safety cross-functional team to lead risk-based hazard analyses at a system level, identify appropriate control and mitigation strategies, write and flow down safety requirements.
• Reviews system vehicle-level and ISS concept of operations, system architecture, and system design from a safety perspective, and collaborate on software, hardware, and operations systems designs to enhance the system safety to meet NASA requirements.
• Performs safety analysis, develops and maintains safety documentation, and supports safety panel reviews for International Space Station (ISS) Payloads and Systems Integration.
• Identifies and quantifies safety risks
• Assures compliance with all NASA safety requirements
• Provides detailed hazard reports and recommendations for risk mitigation strategies.
• Prepares and presents technical presentations to NASA and Boeing Safety boards and panels.
• Participates in Safety Panel Reviews.
• Reviews flight documents, operational scenarios, and subsequent changes for safety impact; Participates in technical interchange meeting and working group meetings as required.
• Provides real-time and post-flight engineering support for flight anomaly investigations.
• Works with NASA, Space Station contractors, and International Partners.
• Collaborates with reliability engineers to produce complete and accurate reliability assessments, including Fault Tree Analysis (FTAs) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEAs).
• Develops test plans to verify safety requirements and validate fault handling capabilities.
• Collaborates with subsystem engineers to flow safety requirements to suppliers and oversee compliance.
• Collaborates with NASA subject matter experts to ensure hazard analyses, safety requirements, and fault management strategy meet NASA contract requirements.
• Prepares safety reports for NASA, including Integrated Hazard Reports, Non-Compliance Reports (NCRs), Verification Tracking reports and Operating and Support Hazard Analysis.
• Leads Safety Reviews to describe and explain rigorous safety approach to the satisfaction of internal and external review boards.
• Exhibits moral and interpersonal courage to speak up when safety deficiencies are identified.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.
• Level 3: 5+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• Experience writing hazard reports.
• Experience presenting hazard reports to customer boards and/or review panels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Level 4: 9+ years of experience in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years or more experience writing hazard reports.
• 5+ years or more Experience presenting hazard reports to customer boards and/or review panels.
• 4+ years of experience with spacecraft, payloads, ground systems, and/or space mission systems.
• Experience applying systems engineering principles during the development of complex hardware/software solutions on an aerospace platform.
• Experience developing cross functional processes, creating and managing engineering deliverables (i.e. Engineering / Manufacturing, Engineering / Supply Chain, Engineering / Program Management, Engineering / Quality, etc.).
• Experience do you have working with Non-conformance (NCR) processes.
• Experience interfacing with NASA safety boards and panels.

Drug Free Workplace: Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits

• competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
• The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
• Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: Experienced (Level 3): $114,750 - $155,250 Senior (Level 4): $141,100 - $190,900

Language Requirements: Not Applicable

Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Relocation: Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Export Control Requirement: If the successful candidate is not a “U.S. Person” (as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 “U.S. Person” includes U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees) and the position requires access to export-controlled data, an appropriate export authorization by the U.S. Government may be required prior to such access. Employment, and the continuity of employment of non-U.S. persons, is contingent upon the company’s ability to secure and maintain the necessary export control authorization.

Safety Sensitive: This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance: This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)

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