Product Safety Engineer (Contract)

£54.30 per hour PAYE (inclusive of holiday pay) / £60.92 per hour umbrella

REMOTE BASED POSITION - occasional visits to site

Inside IR35

Job Role:

• To execute, evaluate, deliver and manage complex engineering and/or cross functional tasks or programmes of work recognising stakeholder and customer requirements.
• Overall purpose of the role is to contribute to the development of a Product Safety Case for a large complex engineering product.
• Identify system and functional hazards using techniques such as Hazop, SWIFT, and Functional Hazard Assessments etc
• Undertake system and functional complex analysis using analysis techniques such as: Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis and Production of Functional Level safety justifications.
• Review System Level safety justifications to support the Functional Level safety justification.
• Providing guidance on all aspects of Product Safety to Engineers within the function.
• Liaison on all aspects of the Product Safety case with customers and suppliers
• Attend and contribute to Design Reviews.
• Developing Safety Functional Requirements (SFRs);
• Authoring annexes of a safety case.

Experience Required:

Essential:

Experience in a range of safety techniques including:

• Systems Safety Analysis
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Fault Schedules
• Safety Case development
• ALARP argument development
• SFR development
• Experience in a range of safety standards and guidance, typically, E.g. IEC61508, DO178, DEF-STAN-00-56, ARP-4761

Desirable:

• Experience of weapons system safety

Key Attributes:

• Appropriate knowledge of the way in which the product is to be operated
• Honours Degree or equivalent experience in the appropriate discipline
• Knowledge of the techniques of Systems Engineering
• Sufficient knowledge of the range of disciplines involved in the product design to be able to identify the best design compromises.
• The ability to analyse complex problems and identify the most critical issues.