Product Safety Engineer

We're expanding our central safety team, which operate across highly critical development programmes and serve as a Thales UK Subject Matter Expert function. The position of Product Safety Engineer is a senior level position are we're ideally looking for a Safety professional with a strong understanding of System Safety to join us. Typically, your day-to-day responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Developing safety plans & ensuring the implementation at project level
• Applying and leveraging your knowledge of Systems Safety Engineering to complex systems and supporting/mentoring junior Product Safety / Systems Safety Engineers
• Leading, managing and sometimes undertaking systems safety activities and assessments
• Ensuring that Thales products are supported by robust safety cases and evidence
• Working in multidisciplinary project/product teams to identify and manage hazards and risks
• Undertaking Systems Safety activities and assessment
• Working in multidisciplinary project/product teams to identify and manage hazards and risks
• Working across a range of activities at various stages of the systems engineering lifecycle.
  
  Experience of Systems Safety Engineering activities in a complex, safety focused and regulated organisation, such as rail, aerospace, defence, nuclear or oil & gas
• Experience of preparing Safety Cases and familiar with ALARP principles and arguments
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking Systems Safety activities including System Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Common Cause Failure Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Interface Hazard Analysis (IHA), System Hazard Logs, System Hazard Analysis Reports
• Ability to work collaboratively in an engineering development environment, ensuring Systems Safety compliance is achieved throughout the project life cycle
Security Clearance statement This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions., Thales is a global technology leader in the Aerospace, Defence and Digital Security sectors, operating across 68-countries and continuing to expand. We are heavily investing in digital and "deep tech" innovations - Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cyber security and quantum technology - to build a future we can all trust. In the UK, Thales develops and engineers cutting edge products and technologies such as autonomous platforms (air and maritime), high performance sonar arrays, Air Traffic Management systems, electronic warfare & counter measure systems., At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.