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About the Role
As a Principal Safety Engineer, you will lead safety assurance activities on the design, development, and maintenance of infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems. You will play a critical role in leading safety activities regarding product development and support for mission-critical naval operations, reporting to the Product Safety Manager.
Responsibilities
- Derive safety activities and work schedules required by the programme to deliver agreed project milestones and satisfy safety requirements.
- Lead safety activities to ensure that the customer’s safety targets, and derived safety targets can be met by the system design, considering relevant aspects of Hardware, Software and Firmware.
- Lead safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.
- Ensure technical documentation is produced to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures.
- Lead analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions proposed by the engineering teams.
- Present complex and well-reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders to influence their consideration of safety decisions.
- Work collaboratively within multi-disciplined teams to maximise NG's reputation by generating high quality and well-reasoned outputs.
- Maintain awareness of latest standards and best practices to drive improvement.
- Provide input to the Monthly Staff Meeting, Team Briefings and SOFT report.
- Supervise and develop other employees as required, potentially acting as a mentor to more junior employees.
Requirements
- Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment.
- Experience in leading technical activities.
- Understanding of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056.
- Experience of safety assurance of COTS PE based systems and/or high integrity software.
- Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects.
- Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis.
- Experience of the tools and techniques used in Risk Assessments and developing ALARP justifications.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. systems, hardware, software and ILS engineers, project management, customer and supplier engineering teams).
- Must be a UK national.
- Must be able to gain and maintain SC (Security Check) UK Government security clearance.
Skills
- Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs)
- Functional Failure Analysis (FFA)
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
Education Level
- Master’s degree
- Degree
- HND
- HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- Compressed fortnight with every other Friday off
- Private healthcare
- Cash health plan
- Holiday buy and sell options
- Performance-related bonus
- Career development, training and mentoring opportunities
About the Company
- At Northrop Grumman UK, you are part of a team driving innovation where it matters most – solving tomorrow’s challenges and shaping the technology solutions of the future.
- Our UK Defence business is a Sovereign software and systems centre of excellence.
- We develop and support UK wide and internationally deployed multi-domain command and control systems.
- Our work is critical to the modern backbone of the Royal Navy.
- We pioneer – with fierce curiosity, dedication, and innovation, we seek to solve the world’s most challenging problems.
- Every day, our teams help build a more secure and connected world through technology that protects what matters most.
- We value diverse perspectives and believe that inclusive teams create better outcomes. Every voice matters here.
- From early-career development to future leadership opportunities, we support you to shape a career that grows with you.
Equal Opportunity
- Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.