Principal Safety Engineer, Hazops/FTA/IEC61508-SC cleared SW London

As a Functional Safety Engineer, You'll have the chance to lead safety assurance activities on the design, development, and maintenance of cutting-edge infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems

UK-Security Check (SC) Based in Surrey

You will play a critical role leading safety activities regarding the development of the product and the provision of support to mission-critical naval operations. Reporting to the Product Safety Manager Safety engineering activities include Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA).

Responsibilities:

Report to the Product Safety Manager.

Leading safety activities to ensure that the customer's safety targets, and derived safety targets can be met by the system design, considering relevant aspects of Hardware, Software and Firmware.

Leading safety audits at internal and external design reviews

Ensuring technical documentation is produced to a high standard

Leading analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions propose by the engineering teams.

Presenting complex and well-reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders in order to influence their consideration of safety decisions.

Awareness of latest standards and best practices to drive improvement

Provide input to the Monthly Staff Meeting, Team Briefings and SOFT report.

Supervision and development of other employees as required. Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required

We are looking for:

Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment

Understanding and awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056

Experience of safety assurance of COTS PE based systems and/or high integrity software

Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects

Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis

Experience of the tools and techniques used in developing ALARP justifications

Master's degree, Degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline

Why join us?

End-to-End Involvement: Be part of a team responsible for the development of control systems products, playing a critical role in ensuring the safety, performance, and compliance of these cutting-edge systems.

You must be able to gain and maintain the relevant UK Government clearance in the line with the job role (SC)