Principal Safety Engineer

4 weeks ago


New Malden, Greater London, United Kingdom Northrop Grumman Full time

About Our Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Safety Engineer to join our team at Northrop Grumman UK. As a key member of our Systems Safety team, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of complex safety critical systems and defence standards across multiple platforms.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement safety analysis techniques, including Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
  • Generate safety requirements for systems to ensure that customer safety targets and derived safety targets can be met by the system design.
  • Present complex and reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders to influence their consideration of safety decisions.
  • Work collaboratively within multi-disciplined teams to maximise NG's reputation by generating high-quality and well-reasoned outputs.
  • Support audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.

Your Experience:

  • Proven experience in delivering and communicating Systems Safety within the UK Defence industry, with a degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline or equivalent relevant experience in Systems Safety Engineering.
  • Awareness, understanding, and application 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.
  • Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis.
  • Awareness, understanding, and application of the tools and techniques used in Risk Assessments and developing ALARP justifications.

About Our Team:

Our team is a small, growing team developing a new capability within NGUK. We bring together the Systems Safety and ILS disciplines to enable us to learn from each other and to enable cross-pollination of ideas and ways of working that benefit you, the team, NGUKL, and ultimately the client.

About Our Responsibilities:

Our customers operate in unique environments that offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We'll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.

How to Apply:

Interested in our opportunity? Yes – then simply submit your application online. Your application will be reviewed by one of our expert recruiters who'll then respond advising you of the outcome and next steps for successful candidates.



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