Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

EXPERIENCE IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SAFETY OCCURRENCES, INCLUDING USE OF FORMAL TECHNIQUES SUCH AS ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

• Familiar with Product Environmental Legislation and Regulation including that for Sustainability
• Knowledgeable with respect to Product Safety related Legislation, Regulation and industry standards and ACOPs
• Expert in the use of formal hazard identification and assessment techniques and methods e.g. HAZOPS (Hazard and Operability studies, SWIFT (Structured What-If Technique), Bow-Tie, GSN, FTA/ETA (Fault/Event Tree Analysis, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) etc.
• Experienced in the implementation and delivery of Product Engineering activities and the development and management of safety programmes
• Ability to manage a specialist team interfacing with a wide range of providers and customers, internally and externally
• Knowledgeable with respect to product environmental, material and safety related Legislation, Regulation and Standards
• Team player who can interface at all levels within an engineering and manufacturing company, represent the company to outside government and customer organisations, and who can operate successfully in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to work professionally and constructively within a team environment providing advice and consultancy across the organisation, including at Thales UK and Thales Business Line level safety forums.
• Is a self-starter, capable of working on own initiative with a high level of integrity.
• A confident communicator, resourceful and proactive, ensuring adequate quality and timely delivery.

The Safety Assurance function provides independent assurance and oversight of the activities conducted by the safety delivery teams such that financial and managerial pressures do not distort the safety assessment of engineering and operational activities or the reporting and investigation of safety issues. Key responsibilities include:

• To support the Technical Director/Safety Authority through:1. Planning, coordinating and assuring delivery of safe products and solutions2. Independent verification and validation of safety artefacts (outputs from the safety engineering activities)3. Provision of guidance to Safety Managers, Product Safety Engineers and the wider engineering community4. Investigate Safety Occurrences5. Escalation of Safety concerns where appropriate6. Ensuring compliance to approved safety management plans7. Attending Project Safety Committee Meetings
• Support the SA in development, implementation and continuous improvement of the Safety & Environmental Management Systems and Processes
• Ensure that product safety and environmental issues are resolved in a timely and competent manner
• Provide the consistent application of Engineering Governance to Product Safety and Environmental Engineering for through-life design
• Operate and improve processes and capabilities required to effectively manage the Design Intent through-life
• To ensure that Product Safety activities are undertaken in line with all relevant project and corporate processes and any specific customer requirements
• To undertake review, qualification and approval activities relative to deliverable and delivered items
• Support the development and delivery of Product Safety across the Business Unit
• Support the Technical Director and SA in the development and fostering of a positive Safety Culture throughout the organisation
• Develop and mentor Engineering resource
• Ensure that safety data is maintained in an auditable and acceptable form
• Ensure that high quality deliverables are produced at all times
• Make task decisions based on strategic and technical requirements
• Work with the Maritime Operations Assurance manager to ensure that product safety decisions are propagated through to the operations environment
• Ensure that safety issues are communicated to the Technical Director/Safety Authority and relevant Stakeholders
• Review HSE incidents to ensure product safety/environmental implications arising from accident/incident reporting are adequately addressed.
• Exercise duties in accordance with statutory requirements and the Thales HSE Management System, mitigating risks and improving overall performance
• Demonstrate strong and active leadership for product safety, setting high standards across all areas
• Immediately raise any concerns regarding the safety of a product, or the application of policies and processes with the Safety Authority.