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Product Safety Engineer

  • Location: Portsmouth
  • Salary: Up to £60.00 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 2 years ago

  • Sector: Engineering
  • Contact: Defence Team
  • Contact Email: defence@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Duration: 12 months
  • Start Date: 28/02/2022
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 09 March 2022
  • Job Ref: BAE082671_1643212928

Purpose of the Role:

  • To exercise delegated responsibility for the safety and environmental management of specified projects.

  • To provide both physical and functional safety expertise to specified projects.

  • To provide product environmental expertise to specified projects.

  • Generate all the required safety & environmental documentation including safety plans, hazard logs, safety assessments, safety cases, environmental impact assessments & reports.

  • To contribute to the pool of safety & environmental expertise within Combat Systems Engineering.

  • To support the internal safety & environmental management systems.


Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities as a Product Safety Engineer will involve:

  • Producing pre-bid product safety & environmental assessments to inform the risks associated with the project

  • Producing safety & environmental management plans

  • Developing safety & environmental arguments for complex systems (including software) sometimes from first principles

  • Selecting and executing the most appropriate and recognised hazard identification, analysis and risk classification / reduction techniques

  • Developing Hazard Logs using SMARTer

The Individual

Essential:

  • HNC/HND or equivalent qualification or experience in Engineering

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • System safety/ product safety

  • Naval operator/maintainer background within Weapons

  • Experience of working with multiple project stakeholders at various levels

  • An awareness of legislation, standards, processes and tools used in safety and environmental engineering

Desirable:

  • Experience working within a Ministry of Defence/Royal Naval environment

  • Product safety or systems safety experience gained from a complex engineering environment

  • Understanding of MoD safety management activities and processes, e.g. DSA01.1, DSA02.DLSR, DEF STAN 00-051, 00-055, 00-056 and the ALARP process

  • The ability to carry out and analyse results of studies such as Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Failure Mode Effects & Critical Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), to gather evidence to support the production of a safety case

  • Experience in conducting Risk Management in accordance with Def Stan 00-56

  • Exposure to IEC 61508 (Functional Safety of electrical / electronic / programmable electronic safety-related systems)

  • An understanding of the BowTie methodology and ability to produce BowTie diagrams

  • An understanding of Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)

Additional Agency Information

  • Pay Rate £60.00 PAYE

  • Hybrid Working, Computer or DSE Work, Drug & Alcohol Test

  • Inside IR35

JAM Recruitment is acting as an employment business with regards to this position.

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