Systems Safety Engineer

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

System Safety Engineer
Crawley or Bristol – Hybrid

Thales develop and engineer cutting edge products and technologies such as autonomous platforms (air and maritime), high performance sonar arrays, Air Traffic Management systems, electronic warfare & counter measure systems, to name a few. As part of the UK Safety Team you will have the opportunity to lead safety engineering activities on these complex and challenging projects while continuing to develop your safety engineering knowledge. 

We’re recruiting for a System Safety Engineer who either has experienced of defence systems or has worked within Safety Critical industries and would be eager to gain experience in defence & aerospace. If you don’t have aerospace or defence experience, but you are particularly interested in the complex engineering challenges, we would welcome a discussion with you as we’ve had great success from candidates from related industries such as Oil & Gas, Rail, Medical and Automotive.

Role & Responsibilities

Undertaking activities identified in Safety Management Plans as directed by the Project Safety Manager;

• Recording and archiving project safety requirements and ensuring they are included on the project design baseline;
• Identifying and analysing accidents, hazards and risks;
• Creating and maintaining project Hazard Logs, including appropriate traceability to the Causes, Consequences, Risk Control Measures, Assumptions, etc.;
• Collating and configuring evidence necessary to complete Safety Assessments/Cases;
• Capturing, reporting and resolving safety issues, and
• Creating reports and artefacts to support safety assessments/cases, including deliverable items

Experience and skills required

• Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) or equivalent in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience.
• Experience Naval Combat Systems or Highly Integrated Systems
• Working knowledge of Safety Management System processes, having regularly implemented SMS processes to meet project requirements.
• Familiar with different types of safety analysis techniques (FTA, Event Tree, FMECA, RBD, LOPA, QRA) and their application.
• Understands safety assessment processes, how they meet requirements and have implemented them on safety programmes.
• Familiar with, and understands the requirements and purpose of Safety Management Plans, having implemented them for a simple products and managed the work package activities.
• Familiar with processes by which safety requirements are captured, recorded and managed.
• Knows standards and can identify sources of safety requirements (Def Stan, BS EN, ISO, IEC, etc.)
• Good working knowledge of formal Hazard ID and risk assessment methodologies (HAZID, HAZOP, FHA, BowTies etc.) knowing which is appropriate to use, having implemented on projects.

Security Clearance statement 

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we can offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include bonus, a strong pension contribute plan matched up to 7%, Private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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