Principal Safety Engineer Contract

Our client in New Malden is looking for a Principal Safety Engineer to join them for a 12-month contract (outside IR35). You must hold current SC clearance.

The Principal Safety Engineer role involves working as part of the system safety engineering team supporting the delivery of several complex safety critical and safety related systems across multiple platforms.
The role is specifically to undertake safety engineering activities in accordance with the safety processes and using guidance from Def Stan 00-056 and IEC61508.

Role Responsibilities:

Be responsible to the Project Safety Manager, who leads the technical safety work and is responsible for generating the safety case.
Undertake safety analysis activities as directed by the project safety manager.
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 (e.g. random hardware failure probabilities or systematic safety integrity level (SIL) targets for software and/or firmware.
Support the planning of safety activities on a complex project, including effort estimating to deliver the project milestones and safety case objectives.
Supporting audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings
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.
Producing technical documentation to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures
Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required 

What we are looking for:

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)
Masters Degree, Degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline 

Other Information
Contract role
Duration: 12 months
Outside IR35
Rate: £65ph
Location: New Malden

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time