System Safety Engineer - Vehicle Integration

Responsibilities

• Provide system safety engineering support to Space Launch System (SLS) Program integration activities through the identification and analysis of potential hazards associated with integrated vehicle interfaces and mission events.
• Classify identified risks in terms of severity and likelihood, and present results to Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Management and other risk accepting authorities during development milestone reviews, Table-Top Safety Reviews (TTSRs), and other technical and SMA reviews in support of flight readiness and certification.
• Prepare and/or assess System Safety Program Plans to assure compliance with applicable Agency, Center and Program safety requirements.
• Review and assess Program documentation (e.g., Contractor PWS, Data Requirement Deliverables, System Requirements Document, Contract End Item, Requirements Verification Compliance procedures, etc.) to assure that safety requirements are addressed in compliance with Agency, Center, and Program requirements.
• Participate in Trade Studies related to design, development, operation, or mission events for assigned in-house and contracted projects, to assure compliance with safety requirements and to assure safety risks are identified, characterized, and mitigated.
• Develop, review, and maintain safety analyses and supporting safety products (e.g., hazard analyses, hazard reports, and related artifacts) defining hazard causes, controls, and methods of verification/validation.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations for acceptance of Non-compliance Reports, and Requests for Waiver/Deviations, including documenting safety impacts and required updates to hazard analyses/hazard reports and safety verification evidence.
• Support and/or evaluate reliability and safety analyses as required (e.g., Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Critical Item/Criticality tracking) and assess impacts to hazard controls and verification.
• Track to closure all System Safety Analysis Report (SSAR) review comments and Tabletop Safety Review (TTSR) Action Items and Agreements; ensure resulting updates to hazard products and verification evidence are completed and traceable.
• Assess and support development of program or project verification plans and verification requirements (e.g., Verification Plans, Detailed Verification Objective (DVO) documents) to assure all safety verification requirements are properly included.
• Assess or generate safety verification compliance data to assure it clearly demonstrates compliance with the safety verification requirements and parent safety requirements.
• Track and/or monitor the implementation and validation of hazard controls in accordance with approved hazard reports and verification plans.
• Confirm/validate successful closure of hazard control verifications.
• Further, develop and present operational hazard control verification evidence to the Safety Verification Board responsible.
• Assess test and operating procedures to assure compliance with safety controls and safety verification requirements.
• Develop and provide input for SMASS Contract Data Requirement Deliverables (DRDs) as necessary (including weekly/Monthly activity notes, Management Status Reviews (MSRs), Performance Evaluation Board (PEB) inputs, etc.).

Requirements

• This position has been posted at multiple levels (must meet minimum level indicated). Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.
• This position requires US Citizenship status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering, or a related field.
• Must have 5+ years of recent and related work experience supporting system safety engineering for complex systems.
• Possess demonstrable experience in the performance of system safety hazard analyses and documenting results (e.g., development of System Safety Analysis Reports (SSARs) including hazard reports defining hazard causes, controls, and methods of verification/validation).
• Working experience applying one or more system safety/reliability methods such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and/or similar types of system safety engineering analysis, as appropriate to assigned tasks.
• Experience supporting safety verification planning and closure (e.g., development/assessment of verification plans and requirements, tracking objective evidence, validating hazard control verification closure).
• Experience assessing safety impacts of configuration changes (e.g., change packages, waivers/deviations) and non-compliances, and ensuring required updates to hazard analyses/hazard reports and verification evidence are completed.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to develop deliverables, trackers, and briefings.