Safety Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Safety Engineer

Location: Samlesbury. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,683- £52,426 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Assessment of qualification and verification evidence:
  • On top of existing baselines 
  • For new baselines being introduced
• Development and maintenance of new and existing safety documentation (Hazard Assessment Summary Reports, Safety Engineering Memos, Safety Justification Reports, Change Request statements)
• Carrying out safety assessment of new and emerging safety issues within BAES areas of design responsibility
• Performing Fault tree analysis/ Zonal Hazard Analysis (ZHA) within BAES areas of design responsibility
• Carrying out safety assessment of new and emerging safety issues within BAES areas of design responsibility
• Collating and coordinating Hazards maturity for endorsement with associated control evidence
• Safety reporting to the industrial partners and customers including; support to System Safety Group (SSG) and Safety Working Group (SWG) activities and the Coordination of the Project Safety Committee (PSC), and support Safety Compliance Assurance Review (SCAR) & Hazard Reviews
• Supporting the review of supplier and System documentation, (FMECA, SRM, LCM documentation)

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in relevant STEM subject (Engineering/ Physics/ Maths/ Science)
• Demonstrable knowledge of the system / software engineering lifecycle
• Understanding of relevant engineering standards (MIL-STD-882)
• Willing to Travel Internationally
• Communication skills as customer interface for Safety

Desirable:

• Experience authoring safety Documentation or technical reports with knowledge of Safety Management Plans
• Experience in an aircraft systems safety role or a support engineering safety role

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. 

The team:

The Safety Team is a small team involved in assessing Safety issues across the F-35 and AV-8B platform, we are focal point for all safety issues. This includes communicating with SMEs and TAs, Preliminary Hazard Assessments, Safety Risk Assessments, Hazard Reviews, Running a monthly Product Safety Committee etc. The Safety Team feed directly into the Assistance Chief Engineer and Director/Chief Engineer, providing an excellent learning opportunity from discussions held and exposure to the senior stakeholder world.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 28^th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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