Principal Engineer- Product Safety
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Role summary
As a Principal Engineer working as part of the Product Safety Discipline but within the Programme Product Safety team, you will be responsible for leading on Hazard identification, Risk analysis and the development of the scheme of safety alongside subsystem Technical Authorities. You will provide engineering support and expertise to the Technical Authority, enabling them to create a safe product. You will be responsible for the creation of a safety case argument, built upon a foundation of assurance evidence and other artefacts. The overarching goal of the product safety team is to ensure that hazards are either eliminated or that risk is managed so far as is reasonably practicable. As Principal Engineer, you are expected to be both thought leader and facilitator in the achievement of this goal.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to the Technical Authority teams with the management of the hazards, risks and associated mitigations and contribute to the development of the hazard log and the maturity of information contained within
- Responsible for product safety assessment against major subsystems or key complex technologies
- Verify the quality of submissions to the Hazard Log
- Organise and facilitate HAZIDs and review meetings and contribute to other HAZIDs when required
- Take the lead on all product safety activities associated with the equipment area allocated to them, potentially delegating, managing and reviewing the work of more junior engineers carrying out aspects of the scope
Requirements
- Knowledge of product safety management processes and techniques
- Experience of working in more than one phase of the Life Cycle Management (LCM) framework, with sufficient experience of the total LCM to enable a good understanding of adjacent phases and through life engineering issues
- Awareness of customer (Ship/ System Safety) standards such as:
- DSA-02
- JSP430
- Def. Stan 00-56
- Mil Std 882E
- BS EN 61508
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