Senior Safety Engineer (CDS Defence and Security)

CDS Defence & Security (CDS DS) is part of the Bailie Group – a family-owned group of agencies and consultancies with the collective mission to improve people’s lives by sharing knowledge.

CDS DS is an industry leading technical consultancy delivering world class services in Support Engineering, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, Training & Leadership Development and Communications. We exist to make the world a safer place and do this by providing sophisticated training solutions, operational support, information assurance and engineering support to a breadth of clients within the defence and security domain.

With over 50 years’ experience, we have a well-deserved reputation for providing our clients with complete peace of mind. From delivering forward-thinking training to the UK Armed Forces, to working in partnership with Tier 1 defence and security providers on some of the most significant defence programmes of recent years, the CDS DS name has become synonymous with trust, quality, collaboration, and truly visionary approach to the most complex of problems.

Introduction

To support CDS DS’ continued growth, we are looking to appoint a Senior Safety Engineer to join our growing Support Engineering division. As a member of the support engineering team, the Senior Safety Engineer is responsible for production, review and delivery of safety artefacts to support our defence and industry contracts

Principle Activities

The safety engineer is expected to:

• Undertake work, as directed by the Safety & Environmental Lead Engineer, as part of the safety and environmental team.
• Production and review of safety artefacts following the guidance in a range of applicable standards.
• Delivery of safety projects to time, cost and quality.
• Follow the procedures in the CDS DS Safety & Environmental Management System to the level of quality described in the Quality Management System.
• Organise, Chair and Partake in Project Safety and Environmental Panels (PSEPs) – produce agendas, meeting arrangements, minutes and precursor hazard
• reviews.
• Write and Review Minutes from Safety Meetings extracting the key changes for updates to the Safety and Environmental Case Reports (SECRs) and Equipment
• Safety Assessments (ESAs).
• Undertake the Hazard Management Process.
• Update and Review SECRs and ESAs to reflect changes identified in design updates or during safety meetings.
• Write new SECRs and ESAs.
• Advise on aspects of Safety and Environmental engineering within their experience level.
• Support bid processes by providing specialist technical input, as required
• Performance Measures

The senior safety engineer is expected to deliver all outputs and artefacts to a high level of quality and meet specified deadlines.

Key Performance Measures for the safety engineer include:

Delivery of own project(s) to meet the client’s PCT needs and make the agreed level of contribution.
Review of subordinate’s projects to meet PCT needs and contribution.
Ensure projects are delivered within the PCT boundary and make the agreed level of margin contribution.
Upward RAG reporting of project progress.
Underpinning Knowledge

The Senior Safety Engineer is required to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge and familiarity with the following aspects:

MOD safety and environmental management processes
MOD Acquisition process (ASG)
POEMS, POSMS and emerging Defence Safety Authority Publications
Defence standards, regulations and guidance
UK legislative statutes
International and European Safety Standards (IEC 61508 & similar)
System safety engineering and associated practises
Functional safety engineering and associated practises
Risk assessment, evaluation, management and acceptance.
Safety Management Systems (SMS)
Safety and Just Cultures
Hazard identification, analysis, recording and management
Environmental management
Fault / Event Tree Analysis (FTA/ETA)
ALARP principles
Core Competencies

The Safety Engineer is required to possess and display appropriate levels and understanding in the following areas:

Effective communication with Line Management and clients
Teamwork
Supervision
Communications and Influencing skills
Analysing Technical Evidence
Risk Management
Systems Engineering
Qualifications and Training

Required:

Chartered Engineer or working towards registration.
Academic qualification e.g. HND/BSc/BEng level qualification coupled with relevant defence and safety critical engineering experience
Project Management experience.
Demonstrable experience of working at Practitioner level as defined by IET Competence Framework for safety-critical Practitioners
Capable of achieving a minimum of SC Clearance
Computer literate and proficient with MS Office tools, Word, Excel etc.
Willing to travel, UK and international, 5-20%

Desirable:

Post Graduate qualifications in Safety Critical Systems Engineering or willing to undertake
Professional Registration at Member or seeking registration
Defence sector experience and/or safety critical industry experience
Experience of working within DE&S Delivery Teams