Lead Naval Functional Safety Engineer

Lead Naval Functional Safety Engineer

The Lead Naval Functional Safety Engineer will be responsible for leading and performing a wide range of Functional Safety activities throughout the full lifecycle of major UK and global Naval projects. You will have opportunities to work on projects from their concept through design, manufacture, commissioning and into service.

Working in a class-leading, multi-disciplinary team of engineers you will bring your extensive expertise in Functional Safety engineering within the field of military projects and equipment, ideally with knowledge of relevant military standards, class rules and regulatory requirements.

You will have responsibility for the following activities:

• Coordinating Functional Safety aspects across various projects to ensure a consistency of approach across the business.
• Creating Functional Safety Management Plans (FSMP) and project philosophy documents to support functional safety, where necessary.
• Analysing and defining Safety requirements (Functional Safety requirements and Technical safety requirements) for projects and equipment.
• Conducting Safety analyses (e.g. FTA, FMEA, HAZOP)
• Conducting and supporting functional safety audits and assessments.

• Minimum of a degree or equivalent qualification, or higher, for example Masters or PhD, in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience of functional safety analysis techniques, including, but not limited to, conducting FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, HARA activities.
• Is a sole UK National and holds, or be eligible to obtain, UK security clearance to SC level.

• Experience within the UK Defence sector, in particular with the UK Royal Navy.
• Knowledge of military and/or defence standards.
• Hold a UK Driving Licence and be willing to travel within base country and overseas for short-term working.