Safety Principal Engineer

at  General Dynamics Land Systems UK

DESCRIPTION

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a Safety Principal Engineer to join our established Engineering Team. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £69,600 to £87,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally.
Joining an established team based at our South Wales facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders, in the conduct of system safety, environmental and legislation engineering activities covering the complete safety programme life cycle.

TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE, YOU WILL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING:

• A safety engineer with significant experience who has undertaken system safety assessments on major UK defence programmes through to certification and customer approval for use within military land system applications
• Experience in producing Safety Cases in accordance with DEF STAN 00-56, JSP 454, JSP520 and POSMS at System level including all primary sub-systems
• Demonstrated experience in producing compelling system safety arguments and associated reports
• Derivation and setting of appropriate safety criteria/requirements
• Undertaking hazard identification, hazard analysis and risk assessment to include HAZOP, SWIFT, FMEA(CA), FTA, ETA, GSN/CAE techniques
• Producing and assessing tolerability and ALARP arguments
• Familiar with recognised standards and procedures including, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, JSP 375, JSP 815
• Understanding and application of safety and general purpose tool sets, e.g.:
• FaultTree+, Cassandra , Adelard ASCE and MS Office tools
• The ability to audit suppliers against for instance IEC 61508 and /or ISO 26262.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:

• A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplac