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▷ High Salary: Chief Systems Safety Engineer

Lockheed Martin
Havant
7 months ago
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Chief Safety Engineer Havant, Hampshire, HybridWorking Great salary, BUPA, Benefits & 4 Day Work Week LockheedMartin Rotary and Mission Systems provides systems engineering,software development, training solutions and complex programmanagement for global security, civil and commercial markets. Wehave an exciting opportunity to join the Lockheed Martin team inHavant, Hampshire as a Chief Safety Engineer. We’ll provide youwith meaningful work and education opportunities that will allowyou to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, butequally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. Toensure this we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensivebenefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life inand outside of work. Our 4 Flex working fortnight is a particularfavourite amongst the team, giving you every Friday off, to spendmore time doing the things you enjoy. You will work across thebusiness as the person responsible for safety engineering on ourmany and varied programmes as well as future capabilities, which wewant you to help shape. These range from safety engineering for anumber of helicopter platforms, fixed wing aircraft, autonomous airvehicles and maritime platforms. You’ll be the leader of thebusiness transformation of our safety culture. You will primarilybe home based with occasional travel to the Havant and Yeoviloffices and our customer site in Crawley, Bristol and Culdrose.This would really suit you If you have a background in Aerospace,particularly rotary wing, and are considered an expert in yourfield. You will experience a wide range of engineering activitiesincluding: Being accountable for leading product safety and leadingand managing the work of the product safety team Defining andmaintaining a product safety culture across all LM UK RMS businessareas, appreciating that product safety decisions have tounderwrite LM UKIS’s obligations under DAOS/AAOS certificationProviding technical leadership and direction with respect to safetyprogrammes on the portfolio of LM UK programmes Implementing,co-ordinating and conducting programme safety and environmentalrelated activities in accordance with company procedures in arigorous and effective manner Owning and fully maintaining allproduct safety management processes Reviewing, approving andaccepting flight approval and safety documentation Providing safetysupport and expertise to new business proposals as requiredRepresenting LM UK at both Senior level, Customer and MajorSub-contractor technical review boards and meetings Reviewing andaccepting vendor Engineering Change Proposals Preparing engineeringresource budget estimates for product safety activities Leadingsafety design efforts of Bespoke Aerospace Software/Hardwareinterfaces and systems Establishing and maintaining effectiveworking relationships with clients and suppliers across all levelsof the organisation both internally and with the customer What’s init for you? To be part of something challenging that gives you achance to make a difference Working with a supportive team whowants to see you thrive and grow The opportunity to learn and helpothers master new skills Required skills, qualifications andexperience: Recent, relevant experience of implementation of safetyprogrammes in a prime contractor/systems integration environment.Working and current knowledge of: UK and EU safety relatedlegislation (e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act) Environmentallegislation and management systems (e.g. ISO14001 etc.) Defence andcommercial safety standards such as Def Stan 00-056, Def-Stan00-055, Mil Std 882, IEC61508, DSA02 Project Oriented SafetyManagement System (POSMS) Project Oriented Environmental ManagementSystem (POEMS) Safety Case development using the Adelard SafetyCase Editor (ASCE) Hazard Management using eCassandra Event Treeand Fault Tree development using Reliability Work Bench EqualOpportunity Statement Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equalopportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse andinclusive work environment. Diversity and inclusion are fundamentalto our culture and reflect our values of doing whats right,respecting others and performing with excellence. By engaging withall our employees diverse talents and experiences every day, we caninnovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions andunparalleled customer value. We know that diversity of thoughtleads to better solutions for our customers. Our top priority isfinding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested inthe position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to ourmission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if youdon’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our jobadvert. In addition, we are committed to inclusion of allindividuals and will make reasonable adjustments to ourapplications process. If you require assistance or adjustments toparticipate in the job application or interview process, pleasecontact recruitment.lmukglobal.lmco.com or call 023 92 458000.

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