Hybrid Product Safety Engineer

at Thales

• Job title: Product Safety Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Crawley, United Kingdom

About the role

• Product Safety Engineer ensuring timely delivery of safety artefacts for projects at Thales UK. Developing safety management plans and supporting investigations for complex systems and products.

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.
• Desirable: Experience working in the Defence/Naval industry.
• Preferably from Communications background
• Previous experience working with MAA(Military Aviation Authority)/AAOS (Air Traffic Management Equipment Approved Organization Scheme).

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.