System Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Detailed experience with System Safety Engineering
• Detailed experience with System Safety and Life Cycle Engineering specifications, USG and UK regulations and safety boards including detailed knowledge on HACM variants
• Knowledgeable / experience with Product Safety Officer (PSO) roles and responsibilities
• Frequent presentations to Senior, Executive-level management at the client Corporate Level
• Knowledgeable / experience with US Government Safety Review Boards' approval processes (WSESRB, SSSTRP, etc.)
• Knowledgeable / experience with client's Life Cycle Engineering Disciplines, as well as Proposal Development especially for effectors
• Problem resolution skills for triage, pragmatic solutions to safety issues
• Leading one or more MIL-STD-882E compliant system safety programs involving management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400)
• Expert application of project management skills
• Mentorship of 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 Group(s) between key client 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: Chief Engineer, Program Manager, Integrated Product Team Lead, etc.
• Working 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: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Environmental Safety, & Health, Human Systems Interfaces, Test Engineering
• Analysis of engineering hardware, mechanical and electrical drawings and schematics assessing fault tolerance, latent hazards, and safety requirements compliance

Requirements

• In addition to the above requirements, typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 20 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with risk assessment concepts, such as those in MIL-STD 882E
• 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
• A current Secret or Top-Secret U.S. government issued Security Clearance required prior to start date
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Special program-specific security clearance required prior to start date

Qualifications

• We Prefer
• 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
• Master's degree in science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)