Job Title: Senior Product Safety Engineer
Location: Prestwick, Scotland
Salary: Dependent on skills and experience
Working Arrangements: Hybrid and flexible options available.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate aircraft/system/sub-system and support products' safety throughout their lifecycle, including preliminary hazard analysis, hazard analysis, and system safety assessment reports.
- Generate, update, and review SSARs, HA reports, Fault Tree Analysis, and Event Tree Analysis to meet certification requirements.
- Create and review Aircraft Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports for certification or partner inputs.
- Maintain and update hazard logs for platforms and support products, generating safety assessments and design justifications.
- Review certification evidence for platform/support products, generating safety arguments to support certification.
- Ensure safety engineering evidence supports acceptable product design safety certification, preparing material for reviews.
- Conduct risk assessments for emergent issues and support Typhoon Platform System/Sub-System areas in safety assessments for continued airworthiness.
- Liaise with internal and external customers to agree on delivery timescales.
- Allocate tasks to qualified team members and manage personnel responsibilities, including performance and career development.
- Collaborate with executive and product integrity teams to ensure qualified personnel availability.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- HND/HNC/Degree in a STEM subject or relevant experience.
- Experience in safety engineering with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong self-motivation and effective verbal and written communication skills.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge in aerospace/aeronautical engineering, systems or mechanical engineering, and safety engineering in military airborne platform design.
- Familiarity with safety standards (e.g., UK Regulatory Framework, Def-Stan 00-55/00-56, Mil-Std-882, DO-178, DO-254, ARP 4754, ARP 4761, EN 61508).
- Experience with safety toolsets (e.g., Fault Tree Analysis+, Reliability Workbench, Goal Structured Notation (GSN)).
- Ability to engage with senior technical and engineering leaders and external stakeholders.
- Leadership skills.