Principal Engineer – Product Safety Johnstone

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Product Safety

Location: UK Wide – (Primary sites – Scotstoun, Broad Oak, Portsmouth, Frimley and Filton are also alternatives). We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £70,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Planning, execution and reporting or product safety activities
Process facilitation and specialist process guidance for HazID, analysis and risk management
Defining the safety argument and articulation of the safety case
Management of the hazard log, information set and assurance evidence
Specific analysis in support of the risk assessment
Taking responsibility for product safety assessment against major subsystems or key complex technologies

Your Skills and Experiences

Essential:

Practitioner knowledge and hands on experience of the HazID processes e.g. Functional Failure Analysis, hazard assessment and risk management.
Experience leading a technical team
Hands on experience creating a safety argument for a complex product
Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to liaise with stakeholders at various levels alongside presentation and facilitation skills
Applicants should ideally be Degree qualified or have equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline
Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution

Desirable:

A background within a Naval/Maritime environment or similar highly regulated industry

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Product Safety Team:

The Product Safety team is a group of 40 practitioners deployed across a wide range of programmes. You might be working in a team on a large complex programme or individually for one or many smaller programmes

Accountability for the safety of the design solution rests with the Technical Authority. Your role is to support the Technical Authority in their