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Posted 6 June 2025
Job ref: 243603DFA

Lead System Safety Engineer

  • Location: Luton, Bedfordshire, England
  • Salary: £65.00 - 87.70 per hour + Inside Ir35
  • Category
  • Sector: Aerospace and Defence
  • Contract type Contract
  • Consultant: Daniel Farrow

Lead System Safety Engineer
Location: Luton, mostly site based
Rate: £65 p/h PAYE or £87.70 ph Umbrella
Duration: 6 Months
Inside IR35
SC Clearance required.

Within Team Tempest, Leonardo UK is developing a suite of Integrated Sensor And Non-Kinetic Effects (ISANKE) and Integrated Communications Systems (ICS) subsystems this effort is being coordinated by, and delivered to, the Future Combat Air Sector within Leonardo UK as a cross-Line of Business (XLoB) activity.

The subsystems within the ISANKE and ICS Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP) suite are being designed to operate as an integrated part of an overall ISANKE and ICS system TDP within which the different subsystems will communicate and operate together. This functional integration will enable the demonstration of representative integrated sensing and communications technologies and capabilities.

The ISANKE and ICS equipment will be physically integrated onto a donor platform to deliver a Flight Test Aircraft (FTA) for test, development and demonstration purposes.

Key Responsibilities
• Providing specialist safety advice to the SDA, to support their authorization of the Product safety, in accordance with Company processes
• Ensuring that safety activities conducted on the Programme, within the scope of the TDP Systems, follow the plan described in the safety management plan and that the analysis is complete and correct.
• Identifying and analysing intrinsic hazards, including mitigation to reduce the residual safety risks to an ALARP level for the ISANKE and ICS TDP system
• Identifying and analysing functional hazards, including mitigation to reduce the residual safety risks to an ALARP level for the ISANKE and ICS TDP system
• Eliciting ISANKE and ICS TDP safety requirements and flowing these down to the appropriate level
• Reviewing individual TDP Subsystem System safety analysis and incorporating the outcomes in the integrated ISANKE and ICS analysis.
• Review aircraft level safety analysis and ensure it aligns with ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety analysis
• Documenting the integrated ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety assessment as described in the safety management plan.
• Presenting a summary of the integrated ISANKE and ICS TDP Systems safety assessment at the ISANKE and ICS TDP Design Reviews.

Key Skillset
Essential:
• Experience of safety analysis of complex systems in a safety-critical industry
• Experience across a number of engineering lifecycle phases
• Experience in leading and delivery a safety work package across multiple teams
• Knowledge of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities

Desirable:
• Knowledge of ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254, or DO-178C
• Knowledge of design complexity and significant levels of uncertainty
• Knowledge of lasers, radar systems, and/or sensors and defensive aids systems
• Awareness of Information Security
• Involvement in cross-industry safety initiatives, such as via the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) or Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC)
• Cameo Systems Modeler
• IBM DOORS
• Adelard ASCE
• Isograph Reliability Work Bench

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