Safety & Environmental Protection Engineer

Safety and Environmental Protection Engineer

Location:            Winfrith, Dorset

Duration:            6 months

Rate:                  Negotiable hourly rate (inside IR35)

The successful candidate will develop and maintain System Safety and Environmental Cases for our clients Products, Systems and Services (PSS) to ensure that all residual risks to personnel and the environment are deemed acceptably safe and environmentally compliant.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain safety and environmental cases for complex maritime systems, compliant to relevant legislation, appropriate domain standards and user/system requirement specification.
• Identify and assess intrinsic and functional hazards using industry recognised qualitative and quantitative techniques including: Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOPS), Structured What-If Technique (SWIFT), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
• Support product integrity and certification requirements, including assigning Safety Integrity Levels in accordance with IEC 61508 or equivalent.
• Identify environmental aspects and impacts using industry recognised techniques such as Environmental Impact Screening and Scoping and Environmental Impact Management.
• Influence system design through development of derived safety & environmental requirements and track these through to implementation to assess measures of performance through validation and verification activities.
• Manage ongoing safety hazards through hazard management tools such as Bow-Tie XP, Adelard, Harms and eCassandra and environmental aspects and impacts within Environmental Features Matrices.
• Collate and articulate structured and robust compliance arguments from diverse sources of information using recognised techniques (e.g. Goal Structured Notation and Claims Argument Evidence) and present these within safety & environmental case documentation.
• Prepare and deliver effective and engaging multi-stakeholder safety and environmental meetings, including the production of high quality presentation materials and minutes.

Key accountabilities may include:

• Managing and reporting of safety and environmental tasks.
• Support bidding activity by providing estimated costs and timescales for safety and environmental activities.
• Implementing and maintaining AEUK’s Safety Engineering policy and process to ensure it meets the needs of AEUK and its customers and complies with relevant legislation.
• Working with the ILS Team Leader, Safety & Environmental Engineering Manager, Product Managers, System Design Authorities, Technical Leads, Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Managers and the other Safety & Environmental Engineer to ensure that safety and environmental factors are considered for all PSS at every stage in the product lifecycle and that products are developed with safety and the environment as the highest priority.
• Work with system experts to uncover potential system safety and environmental issues.

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Up-to-date with latest developments in safety and environmental legislation, best practice, tools and techniques. This is to include the UK MOD Safety & Environmental framework, including DSA01.1, DSA02-DMR and supporting JSPs and operating domain specific arrangements.
• Proficient in supporting system compliance against applicable defence standards, notably the latest issues of Defence Standard 00-051, Defence Standard 00-055 and Defence Standard 00-056.
• Proficient in using frameworks such as the Acquisition Safety and Environmental Management System (ASEMS), Project Oriented Safety Management System (POSMS) and Project Oriented Environmental Management System (POEMS).
• Awareness of reliability engineering and data Integrity.
• Full proficiency in the use of MS Office toolset and SharePoint.
• Enquiring mind with the ability to draw out information from a holistic array of sources.
• Personal drive and a proactive problem solver.
• Flexible approach to work and can-do attitude.
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Additional

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.