Product Safety Engineer – Delivery

at  BAE Systems

Job title: Senior Product Safety Engineer
Location: Filton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: £50,000 – £65,000

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• HND/HNC/Degree or equivalent in a STEM subject, or relevant experience
• Safety Engineering experience/ critical and analytical thinking along with excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong self-motivation and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• People management experience

Desirable:

• Knowledge and experience in Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering, Systems or Mechanical engineering and Safety Engineering in a Military Airborne Platform design environment
• Working knowledge and experience of Safety standards e.g. UK Regulatory Framework, Def-Stan 00-55/ 00-56, Mil-Std-882, DO-178, DO-254, ARP 4754, ARP 4761, EN 61508
• Working knowledge and experience of Safety toolsets e.g. Fault Tree Analysis +, Reliability Workbench, Goal Structured Notation (GSN)
• Ability to engage with Senior technical and engineering leaders within the business and Senior external and Partner stakeholders
• Ability to lead out and influence on the technical aspects and acceptability of Product Safety in a through-life capacity

• Liaising with Customers to agree delivery timescales
• Allocation of tasking to suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team and may have people responsibilities (PDR, career development plans, aspirations etc)
• Liaising with the Executive population to ensure availability of suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team
• Evaluating Aircraft/System/Sub-System and Support Products/Goods design safety throughout the Product lifecycle, including preliminary hazard analysis (PHA), hazard analysis (HA), and system safety assessment reports (SSAR), Generating, updating, and reviewing SSARs and HA reports, including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA), in support of certification requirements
• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports (ZHAs) in support of the certification process or provision of inputs to partner companies
• Maintaining and updating hazard logs for the Platform and Support Products, while generating safety assessments and design justifications
• Reviewing Platform / Support Products certification evidence (inc. associated qualification evidence) and generating safety certification arguments / justifications to assert that the Platform / Support Products design is acceptability safe in support of the certification process
• Ensuring safety engineering evidence supports acceptable Safety Certification of the product design, while preparing certification material for internal, partner company, and customer reviews as needed
• Undertake Weapon Platform emergent issue risk assessments, and support the Typhoon Platform System / Sub-System areas and Support Products system design responsible areas undertake emergent issue risk assessments, in support of Continued Airworthiness a Through Life product safety