AddressJob Title – Safety Engineer
Job Location – Bristol, UK
Job ID – 9572
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.
L3Harris in Bristol/Burgess Hill/Barrow provides enduring, robust and cutting-edge Platform Management Systems (PMS) for both the UK Royal Navy sub-surface and surface fleets, notably current Astute submarine and Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers, in-build Type 26 and Type 31 frigates - this skill set also extends into cruise liners and super-yachts in the commercial marine market.
The successful applicant will be working on large scale projects with opportunities to advance their career in the field of software and hardware systems safety within the maritime domain.
A few of our employee benefits are:
- Hybrid working where possible – 2 days onsite per week
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
What the role will involve
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
- Supporting delivery of safe systems through the production of safety cases, hazard logs, and relevant safety documentation.
- Producing Safety Engineering analysis to support safety cases, including both quantitative and qualitative techniques for analysing failures of both software and hardware.
- Providing knowledge of safety regulations and standards to project teams.
- Deriving safety requirements and perform requirements gap analysis. Including how the requirements will be assessed for verification and validation, and provide justification where required.
- Carrying out safety assurance activities, such as document reviews and audits.
- Consider a wide range of non-safety factors, such as specification, budget, and schedule while meeting required safety requirements.
- Taking decisions on assigned responsibilities and also providing input and recommendations to management for improvements on ways of working.
- Interaction with customers and stakeholders to deliver work in line with schedule.
What you’ll bring
The role of Safety Engineer requires the following experience and skills:
- Minimum of 2 – 3 years’ prior related experience as a Safety Engineer
- Experience in safety and reliability analyses to support physical and functional hazard assessments, risk reduction, determination of safety requirements and design safety justification
- Excellent planning, communications (including client-handling), organisational and co-ordination skills
- Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office, DOORS, safety and reliability databases / tools)
- Understanding of safety controls to ensure safety is inherent in design, an appreciation of human factors, environmental hazards, quality, requirements management, test and acceptance processes.
Important to know
Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.
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