Senior Systems Safety Engineer, based Fareham, SALARY TBA up to 52k
Applicants will need a thorough knowledge of avionics and defence industry including military experience.
Knowledge of current Reliability/Maintainability/Safety Engineering standards and techniques
Knowledge of SEI CMMi.
Knowledge of the product development life cycle from customer need to disposal.
Be qualified to Degree standard in systems engineering, electronics, engineering discipline.
Have Experience of working as a senior engineer on systems developments.
Be acknowledged and recognised safety and reliability expert with proven record of achievement.
Have extensive knowledge of product safety and reliability/maintainability/testability management, modelling techniques, control, analysis and validation (including Failure Modes Effects, Criticality Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, performing reliability prediction and failure analysis).
Ability to define the strategy and approach to safety/reliability/maintainability analysis and experience of guiding subsequent design synthesis.
Understanding of the architecture of product design including experience of performing design trade-off analysis in order to meet safety/reliability/maintainability/availability requirements and proposing subsequent design approaches in order to meet requirements.
Knowledge of current civil, military and defence standards such as MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-1629, Def Stan 00-56, AC25.1309, ARP4754/4761, RTCA/DO-254 and DO-178B.
Ability to conduct system safety assessments consisting of Functional Hazard Assessment, Preliminary System Safety Assessment, and System Safety Assessment. Overall Purpose/Objectives of Role
Detailed knowledge of maintainability and testability analysis including extensive experience of performing predictions, detection and isolation analysis and ensuring equipments are designed that meet maintainability and testability requirements

Key duties:
Develop and implement structured engineering solutions to meet programme requirements across the whole development life cycle in accordance with customer requirements, legislation, human factors and business needs.
Be responsible for the control of own work and that of any allocated resource to meet agreed technical, quality, cost and schedule requirements
Develop innovative engineering solutions to meet the requirements of the project to agreed schedule, quality and cost requirements across the whole development life cycle within the context of the life cycle management process
Work with customers, other engineering disciplines and other internal departments across the whole development process and respond to their requests in a timely and professional manner.
Compile plans, estimates, task lists and risk management plans with estimated resource requirements (people and equipment) in support of programme objectives, project estimates and bids.
Perform, track and control internal project activities and external sub-contract organisations, whilst maintaining focus on achieving goals with a positive can-do attitude.
Capture, define and manage requirements through a disciplined and rigorous approach to requirements management and ask challenging questions about the requirements and architecture of the system at each level of the hierarchy.
Ensure systems architectures are developed considering alternative concepts and trade analysis in order to determine preferred solution.
Construct and implement Embedded solutions including detailed design, leading technical reviews, and performance optimisation.
Define strategies in order to comprehensively review and exercise designs to detect defects and evaluate features in both development and manufacture.