Principal System Safety Engineer

About the role

The System Safety team at RTX is dedicated to ensuring the safety of our products, particularly for our warfighters. This role involves developing and implementing system safety programs, managing projects, and collaborating with various engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement one or more MIL-STD-882E compliant system safety programs involving management, analysis, evaluation, and verification tasks.
• Create/update the strategy for the program to meet all its milestones with system safety features integrated into the product in compliance with contract and awarded funding.
• Create a schedule and integrate safety tasks and activities into the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Plan/manage the safety program effort within the Program IMS.
• Understand the safety budget and tasking through close coordination with the responsible CAM / IPTL / product owner, including EACs.
• Mentor junior safety engineers.
• Actively engage in engineering review boards, and configuration control boards to stay on top of design changes and assess impacts to the established safety program.
• Establish on-going feedback loop with functional and program management.
• Lead & coordinate System Safety Working Groups between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.
• Escalate risks to the appropriate level and follow through on corrective actions.
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications and military standards, to recommend compliance strategies to program leadership.
• Work across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks.
• Analyze engineering hardware, mechanical and electrical drawings and schematics assessing fault tolerance, latent hazards, and safety requirements compliance.
• Collaborate with Program Management and government approval authorities from design, fabrication, integration and test, production to demilitarization and disposal phases.
• Manage safety-related interactions with suppliers and/or subcontractors.
• Innovate better safety solutions.
• Identify best practices to improve overall safety culture at Raytheon.
• Understand and shape system safety/Human System Interfaces postures across the lifecycle (design, integration/test, flight test, production, field, returns).
• Able to work on Special Access Programs.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with risk assessment concepts, such as those included in MIL-STD 882E and JSSSEH.
• Experience writing technical reports and presentations.
• Experience with briefing safety status to safety approval authority at technical reviews, safety review boards, and others as part of the safety approval process.
• Experience managing a safety program.
• We prefer active/existing DoD clearance.
• Experience with briefing at the military safety review board.
• Experience with system and software safety implementation in Agile Development environment.
• Experience with interpersonal and project management skills, with the ability to manage a safety program and provide directions to support safety personnel.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Proposal Development.
• Experience interfacing with Human Systems Integration showcasing execution of Human Factors Engineering tasking involving MIL-STD-1472.
• Experience with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, System Safety Working Groups.
• Experience interfacing with other engineering functions: Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.
• Master’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).