Lead Safety Engineer

Safety Lead Engineer - Cheltenham / Bristol

We have been instructed to help our client recruit an experienced functional safety professional to oversee and manage their Safety & Environmental Defence capability.
The successful candidate will act as the Company Safety Authority and be a fee earning lead engineer, attending and leading safety meetings, project meetings and allocating resources to tasks within the team.

The Lead Engineer is required to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and familiarity with the following aspects:


Key Experience and Qualifications


Required:
-Chartered Engineer or working towards registration.
-Professional Registration at Member or Fellow
-Academic qualification e.g. HND/BSc/BEng/MEng level qualification
-Capable of achieving a minimum of SC Clearance
-Computer literate/proficient with MS Office tools, Word, Excel etc.
-Willing to travel, UK and international, 5-10%


Desirable:
-Post Graduate qualifications in Safety Critical Engineering or willing to undertake
-Defence sector experience and/or safety critical industry experience
-Experience of working within DE&S Delivery Team
-Some task leadership experience would be beneficial
-Defence consultancy or service-based industry experience


Benefits
Competitive remuneration package
25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
Flexible working hours
Pension scheme
Life Assurance Scheme
Childcare voucher scheme
Cycle to work scheme


Key Skills: MOD safety management processes, POEMS, POSMS Defence standards, regulations and guidance, Defence Logistics Framework (DLF), UK legislative statutes, Safety Management Systems (SMS), Fault / Event Tree Analysis (FTA/ETA), ALARP


Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.



This role is a permanent position


Electus Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.