Senior Safety Engineer

Description:

As a Senior Safety Engineer, you will be leading development and delivery of the Safety Case that supports the Design Certification or Safety of Flight declaration (Permit to Fly).

Day-to-day, the role requires management of the safety programme including support to project bid activities, leading hazard identification activities and generating and managing programme safety plans for a wide range of Aircraft Modification, commercial equipment and test instrumentation integration (for aviation and other applications), and ground support equipment tasks.

Your responsibilities will include:
 

• Technically leading project safety activities including hazard identification, risk analysis and management
• Preparing safety and risk management documentation required to support certification, or safety of flight (Permit to Fly (PtF)) activities
• Establish the safety and risk management philosophy to meet customer, technical, environmental, operational, safety and regulatory requirements
• Interpret and align requirements and regulatory constraints to support, with the appropriate safety and risk management
• Maintenance of a hazards and controls register
  
   

Essential experience of the Senior Safety Engineer:
 

• Technical report writing, specifically for the generation of Safety Case reporting and advice
• Safety requirement generation and management
• Understanding of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and able to interrogate and review FTA to support safety arguments
• Has a good knowledge and understanding of Regulatory and Governance of the design process
• Is familiar with which safety engineering tools can be used at particular stages of a project lifecycle
• Understanding of statistical approaches to Safety
  
   

Essential qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer:
 

• Master’s degree in safety or aviation related disciplines, or equivalent (HNC/HND/level of experience to deem an equivalent level of knowledge)