Safety Engineer

Safety Engineer is required for a long term contract assignment based in Bristol.

Candidates must have worked in the UK defence environment within the last 12 months.

Responsibilities:

Conduct system and sub-system safety activities, as defined in the Safety Management Plan, during all lifecycle phases (but particularly the development phase).　 This will include, but is not limited to:

hazard identification exercises (SWIFT andHAZOP);

hazard management and risk analysis, including fault tree and event tree analyses;

construction of safety arguments andALARP statements;

provision of support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees; (in conjunction with safety focal points)

assist in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the safety case;

Liaising with other functions in order to derive safety requirements and hazards.　

• The candidate will be expected to work with systems teams in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety requirements. 　Understanding of DEF-STAN 00-056, including the ability to write Safety Management Plans that meet its requirements.　

Skillset/experience required:

Demonstrable knowledge of, and experience in, the application of UK and International system engineering processes, particularly in safety-related systems and safety assessment processes.

Thorough understanding and experience of how the hazard analysis process integrates with the system engineering process to influence the design.

Ability to deliver supporting information (Safety Case Reports, Hazard Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis,FTA, etc).

Detailed electronic engineering experience is highly desirable. Experience of other engineering disciplines (design, software, manufacture, etc.) is also desirable.

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