Sda Safety Manager

IR35 status: Inside IR35.

Contractor Rate: up to £470 per day (rate payable to umbrella company) 

Location:  Abbey Wood, Bristol

Duration: ASAP until the 31/08/2024

Deadline for submission: 17:00 am on the 1st March 2024.

Overview:

Our customer requires a Safety Manager that is able to act as a ‘controlling’ mind in advising Senior Safety accountable and responsible personnel on delivery of safety programmes and artefacts.

This role will act as the lead on the safety aspects of the programme and be responsible for the delivery and maintenance of safety artefacts working within a multi-discipline Acquisition Safety and Environmental Protection (ASEP) team.

Operating as an effective MOD Safety Manager or providing support to safety activities (i.e. the implementation of POSMS, compliance with applicable military regulation and defence standards, DE&S aspects of the management of in-service capability); Initially deployed within Delivery teams in the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA).

The Safety Manager will be required to:

• Deliver against the overarching programme and established safety management plan
• Evolve and advise the safety programme to de-risk delivery and capitalise on opportunities.
• Work for assigned delivery teams to produce safety and environmental artefacts to time and quality requirements
• Produce safety and environmental artefacts to time and quality requirements

The Safety Manager shall advise the DT to ensure the programme will deliver artefacts to demonstrate that policy, legislation and defence regulation have been met and that assets are demonstrably safe. Working as the DT focal point they will be required to represent the DT at required safety engagements, including regulatory interface, and have the ability to brief up and down.

Essential skills:

• Management. Practitioner level experience of DE&S/SDA safety management systems and processes (POSMS)
• Practitioner level experience of leading safety management tasks in DE&S
• Practitioner level experience (Plan creation and update) of:
• Safety and Environmental Management Plans
• Safety Case / A Safety Case Report
• Hazard Logs
• Hazard identification and assessment
• Operation of safety review meetings
• Maritime Safety Management
• Safety Legislation, Regulation, Conventions and defence policy
• Through Life Safety Management.
• Defence regulations

Desirable skills:

• Experience working with SDA and Submarine Safety Cases
• Experience required in delivering Maritime safety artefacts.
• Experience required in compiling safety case evidence, authoring safety case reports and hazard logs.
• Maritime Combat Systems Experience
• Nuclear Safety Experience
• Working with DOSR,DNSR & DMR
• OME Safety Experience
• eCassandra.
• Fault and Event Tree (FTA / ETA).
• BowTie assessment.
• Safety arguments (CAE / GSN).
• Knowledge of applicable legislation, regulation and standards and defence policy.
• Hermes.
• Resolve.
• ASPIRE.
• ASSERT.