Senior Aircraft Systems Safety Engineer

Aircraft Systems Safety Engineer

Location: Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

Contract: 12-month rolling contract (Outside IR35)

Rate: Negotiable

Start Date: ASAP

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week – minimum 3 days onsite

Overview

Adept:us is supporting a leading aerospace organisation with the recruitment of a senior aircraft systems safety engineer to support aircraft systems safety activities at their Brough engineering facility.

This role will focus on aircraft system safety assessment and reliability analysis, supporting the development and modification of aerospace systems in accordance with recognised civil and military aviation safety standards.

The successful candidate will have strong experience in aerospace safety engineering, particularly applying ARP4761 safety assessment processes within aircraft or flight system environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform aircraft system safety assessments in accordance with ARP4761 / ARP4761A methodologies.
  
  
• Conduct Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA) and Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA) for aircraft systems.
  
  
• Develop and maintain Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) to evaluate failure conditions and quantify system safety risks.
  
  
• Review and update FMECA / FMEA analyses to ensure correct mapping of failure modes to system-level safety effects.
  
  
• Define and justify component failure rates using recognised reliability data sources (e.g. MIL-HDBK-217, SN29500, NPRD).
  
  
• Maintain and update safety analyses in response to engineering design changes.
  
  
• Support the development of safety cases and certification evidence for aerospace systems.
  
  
• Produce formal Safety & Reliability reports for internal review and regulatory compliance.
  
  Essential Experience
  
  
• 10+ years’ experience in safety or reliability engineering within the aerospace sector.
  
  
• Strong experience applying ARP4761 / ARP4761A safety assessment processes.
  
  
• Experience performing FHA, FTA, FMEA/FMECA and hazard analysis for aircraft or flight systems.
  
  
• Previous experience working within civil aerospace or aircraft development environments.
  
  
• Experience supporting airworthiness, certification or safety case activities.
  
  
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate complex engineering data into structured reliability models.
  
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
  Desirable Experience
  
  
• Experience working on military aircraft programmes or defence aerospace platforms.
  
  
• Experience using safety modelling tools such as Reliability Workbench, CAFTA, or Medini Analyze.
  
  
• Familiarity with ARP4754A, DO-178C, DO-254 or aircraft systems engineering lifecycle processes.
  
  Deliverables
  
  
• Quantified Fault Tree Analysis models covering key aircraft system failure conditions.
  
  
• Updated FMECA documentation including severity and occurrence rankings.
  
  
• Safety analysis updates in response to design modifications.
  
  
• Reliability and safety assessment reports supporting certification activities