Job Title: Senior Product Safety Engineer

Location: Prestwick, Scotland

Salary: Dependent on skills and experience

Working Arrangements: Hybrid and flexible options available.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate aircraft/system/sub-system and support products' safety throughout their lifecycle, including preliminary hazard analysis, hazard analysis, and system safety assessment reports.
• Generate, update, and review SSARs, HA reports, Fault Tree Analysis, and Event Tree Analysis to meet certification requirements.
• Create and review Aircraft Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports for certification or partner inputs.
• Maintain and update hazard logs for platforms and support products, generating safety assessments and design justifications.
• Review certification evidence for platform/support products, generating safety arguments to support certification.
• Ensure safety engineering evidence supports acceptable product design safety certification, preparing material for reviews.
• Conduct risk assessments for emergent issues and support Typhoon Platform System/Sub-System areas in safety assessments for continued airworthiness.
• Liaise with internal and external customers to agree on delivery timescales.
• Allocate tasks to qualified team members and manage personnel responsibilities, including performance and career development.
• Collaborate with executive and product integrity teams to ensure qualified personnel availability.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• HND/HNC/Degree in a STEM subject or relevant experience.
• Experience in safety engineering with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong self-motivation and effective verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge in aerospace/aeronautical engineering, systems or mechanical engineering, and safety engineering in military airborne platform design.
• Familiarity with safety standards (e.g., UK Regulatory Framework, Def-Stan 00-55/00-56, Mil-Std-882, DO-178, DO-254, ARP 4754, ARP 4761, EN 61508).
• Experience with safety toolsets (e.g., Fault Tree Analysis+, Reliability Workbench, Goal Structured Notation (GSN)).
• Ability to engage with senior technical and engineering leaders and external stakeholders.
• Leadership skills.