Principal Product Safety Engineer - Software

Location: Work from home with occasional office visits to Barrow, Cumbria

Duration: 12 months

Rate: £60 per hour LTD or Umbrella Company, £53.48 PAYE including holiday pay

This role is ideal for an engineer with a Product Safety background in Software and Integration of Software systems.

Key Responsibilities

• To execute, evaluate, deliver and manage complex safety engineering and/or cross functional tasks or programmes of work recognising stakeholder and customer requirements
• To identify and implement opportunities for personal and team development to ensure that professional capability of the business and individual are maintained and improved
• Overall purpose of the role is to contribute to the development of a Product Safety Case for a large complex engineering product
• Identify system and functional hazards using techniques such as Hazop, SWIFT, Functional Hazard Assessments etc.
• Undertake system and functional complex analysis using analysis techniques such as:
  • Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis
  • Production of Functional Level safety justifications
• Review System Level safety justifications to support the Functional Level safety justification
• Providing guidance on all aspects of Product Safety to Engineers within the function
• Liaison on all aspects of the Product Safety case with customers and suppliers
• Attend and contribute to Design Reviews

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Proven ability in a range of safety techniques such as:
• Functional Safety;
• Safety Critical (Complex) Systems Safety Analysis;
• Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA);
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA);
• Event Tree Analysis (ETA);
• Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA);
• Accident Sequence Modelling;
• Fault Schedules;
• Hazard & Operability Analysis (HAZOP);
• Zonal Hazard Analysis (ZHA).
• Proven ability in a range of safety standards and guidance, typically:IEC61508, DO178, DEF-STAN-00-56, ARP-4761;
• Setting integrity requirements (e.g. SIL, DAL);
• Providing/ eliciting compliance evidence to standards and requirements;
• Dealing with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment;
• Dealing with Software of Unknown Pedigree (SOUP).
• Knowledge of safety requirements, typically:
• Developing Safety Functional Requirements (SFRs);
• Deriving safety requirements on systems, components and testing from safety analyses;
• Setting Availability, Reliability & Maintainability (ARM) requirements;
• Providing/ eliciting compliance evidence to requirements;
• Accounting for time at risk for requirements.

Additional

Due to the sensitive nature of the product all applicants must have worked within the Defence / Military industry within the last 12 months or be capable of obtaining Security Clearance (SC level minimum).

This vacancy has been deemed Inside IR35 from April 2021 onwards.

This is a pooling vacancy to cover potential attrition. Candidates will be reviewed and provisional offers made to enable progress with SC applications. However these offers do not guarantee that a suitable position will become available.