Hybrid Product Safety Engineer

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About the role

  • Product Safety Engineer ensuring timely delivery of safety artefacts for technological solutions at Thales UK. Collaborating on safety management plans and supporting audits in defence and security sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure timely delivery of the safety artefacts into the project (safety programme)
  • Creating Safety Assessment/Case and appropriately archiving the Safety Assessment/Case material
  • Developing and managing the project Safety Management Plan and gaining approvals
  • Identifying Legislation, Regulation, Standards and Policy relating to the product in conjunction with the Project Design Authority (PDA) and Contract Manager and monitoring changes
  • Reviewing observations and reports from manufacture, use and maintainers and contributing to the definition of corrective actions to maintain the solution Safety Assessment/Case where necessary
  • Reporting progress, expenditure and issues for safety engineering work packages
  • Supporting audits and the investigation of incidents and accidents.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience
  • HNC/HND also acceptable with relevant experience in the technical areas indicated above
  • Knowledge of Product Safety Policies and Safety Management System processes
  • Has regularly implemented SMS processes to meet project requirements
  • Knowledge of safety assessment processes/techniques (FTA, Event Tree, FMECA, RBD, LOPA, QRA) and knows which to implement based on product & stage of the engineering lifecycle
  • Experience of implementing Safety Management Plans for complex products and systems, providing budgets, managing Work Packages and has undertaken roles such as Project Safety Manager
  • Knowledge of sources of safety requirements (Def Stan, BS EN, ISO, IEC, etc.) and the processes by which they are captured, recorded and managed
  • Knowledge of the structure of Safety arguments/reports/cases and how to structure a system Safety Case Report for complex products (GSN, CAE etc.)
  • Knowledge of traditional safety engineering techniques, concepts and tools (BowTieXP, RWB, FaultTree+, eCassandra, DOORS etc.), understands the difference between key types of analysis (quantitative and qualitative) and is aware of emerging safety engineering techniques.

Benefits

  • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
  • Hybrid working
  • Pension Scheme
  • 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
  • Life Cover
  • Progression and Development Opportunities
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
  • Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

Job title

Product Safety Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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