Senior Functional Safety Engineer Aviation

Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Aviation)

The Location
The post is primarily based in Lincolnshire but may require occasional travel to other sites within the UK.

The Role
As a result of our continued success and business expansion we are delighted to offer an opportunity for a Senior Functional Safety Engineer to join our award-winning team to support the on-going development of our bespoke mission systems.

Working directly for the Safety and Security Technical Authority, the main duties of the role will include:
- Conducting safety analysis on Company-designed mission support systems, including Mission Planning Systems and tablet-based obstacle warning, navigation and EFB products.
- Producing GECO System Hazard Analysis Reports.
- Producing GECO System Safety Assessment Reports.
- Maintaining the GECO System Hazard Log and producing GECO System Hazard Log Reports.
- Supporting the on-going maintenance, control and configuration management of all documentation and records relating to Mission Systems' Safety Management System.

The Person
You will have experience in safety-critical systems engineering and must be motivated by the challenge of analysing complex systems to identify and control safety risk.

The successful candidate will:
- Be a proactive individual with a 'can-do attitude' who can work with only minimal supervision and who is not afraid to contribute their own suggestions and ideas to improve product safety.
- Possess excellent attention to detail and have the discipline to consistently produce high-quality output whilst satisfying the requirements of applicable standards.
- Have an inquisitive/analytical mind, be able to research issues independently and suggest pragmatic, business-focused solutions.

Qualifications and Experience
Applicants should have:
- A degree in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Safety-Critical Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Software Engineering), or;
- A minimum of 3 years' relevant experience working in a safety-related role within a relevant sector (e.g. military air or civil air).

Skills:

Essential
- Experience of software- and safety-related standards such as: RTCA DO-178C, RTCA DO-200B (ED-76A) and Def Stan 00-056.
- Experience of demonstrating the functional safety of complex systems.
- Experience of working with common safety engineering tools and techniques, for example:
o Developing safety assurance cases using Goal-Structuring Notation (GSN) or Claims-Argument-Evidence (CAE).
o Conducting Functional Failure Analysis (FFA); Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)/ Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
- Experience of system hazard log development and management.
- Experience of producing System Safety Assessment Reports.

Desirable
- Knowledge of Military Aviation Authority Regulatory Publications.
- Experience of demonstrating functional safety within the civil air or military air sectors.
- Experience of demonstrating functional safety within software intensive systems.
- Experience of working with aviation mission planning systems.
- Experience of working with electronic flight bag applications/standards.
- Experience of aircraft integration requirements and challenges.
- Experience of stakeholder management within the Defence Air Environment.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.