Lead / Principal System Safety Engineer
SC Clearance is essential (SC)
Up to £76 p/h Inside IR35
Southampton HQ – 3-4 days a week onsite
We are seeking an experienced security cleared Lead / Principal System Safety Engineer to support the development of advanced technologies.
This role focuses on the integration of complex sensing, communications systems by bringing together multiple interconnected subsystems within a wider aircraft architecture.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in system safety across a highly complex, safety-critical aerospace engineering environment.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure system-level hazards, risks and dependencies are identified, assessed and effectively managed throughout the engineering lifecycle.
The role would suit a safety professional who can understand complex system interactions, work confidently across engineering disciplines and lead the delivery of integrated safety assessments.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist safety advice to the relevant Safety and Design Authority, supporting product safety authorisation in accordance with established processes.
- Lead system safety activities, ensuring compliance with the agreed Safety Management Plan.
- Identify and analyse intrinsic and functional hazards, developing appropriate mitigations to reduce residual safety risks to ALARP.
- Develop and manage system safety requirements, ensuring they are appropriately allocated and flowed down to relevant subsystems and engineering teams.
- Review subsystem-level safety analyses and integrate their findings into the overall system safety assessment.
- Review aircraft-level safety analyses, ensuring consistency and alignment with the wider system safety assessment.
- Produce and maintain integrated system safety documentation and assessments in line with programme requirements.
- Identify and manage cross-system dependencies, interfaces and safety implications across the wider aircraft architecture.
- Present safety assessment findings at programme design reviews, clearly communicating safety status, risks and mitigation strategies.
Essential Experience and Skills
- Security cleared currently
- Proven experience conducting safety analysis of complex systems within a safety-critical industry.
- Experience working across multiple engineering lifecycle phases, from design and development through to verification and validation.
- Demonstrable experience leading and delivering safety work packages involving multiple teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical safety assessments to stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
- Experience with aerospace safety and assurance standards such as ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C would be advantageous.
- Experience working with complex system designs involving significant uncertainty and technical challenges.
- Knowledge of radar, laser technologies, sensors or Defensive Aids Systems (DAS).
- Awareness of information security principles within complex engineering programmes.
- Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as those associated with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) or the Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC).
Tools and Technologies
- Experience with any of the following tools would be an advantage:
- Cameo Systems Modeler
- IBM DOORS
- Adelard ASCE
- Isograph Reliability Workbench