Job Title – Safety Engineering Manager

Job Location – Bristol, UK

Flexible working hours considered and hybrid working available – 3 days onsite per week.

Job ID – 12273

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Bristol/Burgess Hill/Barrow provides enduring, robust and cutting edge Platform Management Systems (PMS) for both the UK Royal Navy sub-surface and surface fleets, notably current Astute submarine and Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers, in-build Type 26 and Type 31 frigates - this skill set also extends into cruise liners and super-yachts in the commercial marine market.

The successful applicant will lead a team of safety engineers from both a technical and resource perspective, supporting a broader team of engineers in the field of software and hardware systems safety within the maritime domain. The safety engineering activities include some environmental aspects, and the team may need to develop its environmental experience as projects mature in the long term.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible – 3 days onsite per week
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Act as the safety Subject Matter Expert on a variety of projects; supplying knowledge and experience in the defence environment for the development of real-time software and electronic systems in the function of Safety Engineering
• Plan and carry out safety management activities, with review by safety peers, for project scope commensurate with applicable standards at the required Safety Integrity Level
• Lead development and maintenance of companies Safety Management Systems, in support of delivering safety critical systems to contractual requirements (e.g IEC 61508, IC 61511, ISO 62061, ISO 13849)
• Lead in the derivation and assessment of safety requirements, understanding how to achieve those requirements and verify they have been met, including SIL assessments and safety justifications on the design.
• Manage safety and environmental arguments to support the safety case in compliance with all relevant standards, legislations and regulations
• To lead safety review meetings with safety stakeholders for purposes of Hazard Identification and Analysis (HIA) and safety / environmental risk reduction
• Lead in the use of both quantitative and qualitative techniques for analysing failures of both software and hardware, using appropriate:

• Hazard identification and analysis
• Statistical techniques
• Qualitative and quantitative reliability/failure analysis using such methods as FMEA, FMEDA and Fault Tree Analysis

• Prepare and maintain equipment hazard logs and safety reports
• Carry out functional failure analyses to determine hardware and system reliability
• Carry out software and Programmable Electronic System (PES) assessments of process and documentation against applicable development standards
• Provide safety support to lifecycle review meetings and carry out reviews of engineering deliverable documents
• Carry out internal and sub-contractor safety audits and support audits from an externally appointed Independent Safety Auditor (ISA)
• Provide technical leadership for the Safety Engineering team and help with development of junior members of the team
• Line manage safety engineering team

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Equivalent of 8+ years’ safety engineering experience working on complex engineering projects.
• Experienced in safety critical design and development processes.
• Experience working with control systems
• Experience working with relevant functional safety regulations, standards, and legislation.
• Able to understand detail and a low level of fidelity in technical decision making.
• Strong and experienced people leader
• Able to communicate with customers inside and outside of own department and business to explain and interpret safety decisions.
• Able to plan, organise and coordinate safety and environmental related project work, including delegating appropriately.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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