Safety Engineer

Principal Systems Safety Engineer

Newcastle OR Edinburgh

Paying up to £70p/h (DOE)

ARM has partnered with a large defence client who is looking for an experienced Systems Safety Engineer to assist with conducting safety assessments and supporting projects on all safety issues.

Responsibilities:

• Use safety analysis skills across the full system lifecycle: from requirements analysis (including bids and contracting); through design, development; to system integration, acceptance testing, delivery and in-service support
• Identify hazards and investigate these using functional failure analyses and other techniques, identifying the necessary mitigations to reduce safety risks, and taking part in design trade-offs to implement them
• Evidence your decisions using the data available to you, through fault tree analysis, scenario analysis, and various other techniques
• Document and present the outcomes of safety analysis to stakeholders
• Generate safety requirements to meet customer and/or regulatory safety target requirements
• Work closely with many different engineering disciplines, customers, partners and suppliers to help solve complex problems
• Support audits as required

Experience required:

• Experience of safety analysis in a safety-critical industry on complex systems
• Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases
• Experience with at least one of: ARP4754A, ARP4761, RTCA DO-254, or DO178C
• Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, and/or sensors and defensive aids systems
• Experience with any of the following tools: Cameo Systems Modeler, Azure, DOORS, Adelard ASCE or Isograph Reliability Work Bench