Principal Safety Engineer

Principal Safety Engineer
Permanent
Up to £85,000 p/a
Hybrid (on-site New Malden)
**SC eligible, UK citizen**

Our client, a global organisation, urgently require an experienced Technical Services Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis.

In order to be successful, you will have the following experience:
• Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment
• Understanding and awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056
• Awareness of safety assurance of COTS PE based systems or high integrity software
• Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects
• Experience in some areas safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis
• Awareness of the tools and techniques used in Risk Assessments and developing ALARP justifications
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. systems, hardware, software and ILS engineers, project management, customer and supplier engineering teams)

Within this role, you will be responsible for:
• Be responsible to the Project Safety Manager, who leads the technical safety work and is responsible for generating the safety case
• Generate safety requirements for the system to ensure that the customer’s safety targets and derived safety targets can be met by the system design
• Support the planning of safety activities on a complex project, including effort estimating to deliver the project milestones and safety case objectives
• Generating safety analysis and documenting it in a report, which will be the subject of internal peer review, governance reviews and presenting the findings to the customer
• Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required
• Undertaking analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions propose by the engineering teams
• Presenting complex and reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders in order to influence their consideration of safety decisions

This represents an excellent opportunity to secure a permanent role within a major global organisation.

If you are interested in knowing more about this position, then please send across your most recent CV to Laura Surridge (lsurridge@venngroup.com)