Safety Engineer

Venn Group

Safety Engineer

Recruitment Agency Reference: 6965320

Bristol

£hourly rate

SC Clearance essential upon application

A position has arisen for a Safety Engineer within a large Defence organisation based in Bristol, to support the Safety System Lead in overall safety cases. This is for an initial 6 month contract with the option of extension.

Your duties will include:

• Generating safety programme plans that meet the requirements of Def-Stan 00-56
• Supporting the project in obtaining the agreement of such programmes with the customer
• Conduct system and sub-system safety activities, as defined in the Safety Management Plan, during all lifecycle phases (but particularly the development phase)
• Conducting a series of system and sub-system safety activities in support of these plans during all lifecycle phases including, but not limited to: hazard identification exercises (SWIFT and HAZOP)
• Conducting fault tree analysis
• The candidate will be expected to work with systems teams in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety requirements

The successful candidate should have:

• A valid SC Clearance is essential upon application
• Hazard management and risk analysis, including fault tree and event tree analyses
• Knowledge of Def-Stan 00-56
• Knowledge of SWIFT and HAZOP
• Knowledge of ALARP statements
• Previous experience of Safety Engineering within Aerospace/Defence
• Electrical as opposed to mechanical experience essential

Please note: candidates must satisfy security criteria.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.