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In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Product Safety Engineer

Multiple Thales Locations, Hybrid

Reading, Crawley, Cheadle, Templecombe, Belfast, Bristol

Key Responsibilities

Undertaking activities identified in Safety Management Plans as directed by the Project Safety Manager;

Recording and archiving project safety requirements and ensuring they are included on the project design baseline;

Identifying and analysing accidents, hazards and risks;

Creating and maintaining project Hazard Logs, including appropriate traceability to the Causes, Consequences, Risk Control Measures, Assumptions, etc.;

Collating and configuring evidence necessary to complete Safety Assessments/Cases;

Capturing, reporting and resolving safety issues, and

Creating reports and artefacts to support safety assessments/cases, including deliverable items.

The candidate will demonstrate the following skills & knowledge

Working knowledge of Safety Management System processes, having regularly implemented SMS processes to meet project requirements.

Familiar with different types of safety analysis techniques (FTA, Event Tree, FMECA, RBD, LOPA, QRA) and their application.

Understands safety assessment processes, how they meet requirements and have implemented them on safety programmes.

Familiar with, and understands the requirements and purpose of Safety Management Plans, having implemented them for a simple products and managed the work package activities.

Familiar with processes by which safety requirements are captured, recorded and managed.

Knows standards and can identify sources of safety requirements (Def Stan, BS EN, ISO, IEC, etc.)

Understands that products must comply with legal and regulatory requirements (HASAWA, UK SI’s, EU Product Directives etc.).

Implementing techniques (compliance matrices and other methods) to ensure that safety requirements are identified and met.

Good working knowledge of formal Hazard ID and risk assessment methodologies (HAZID, HAZOP, FHA, BowTies etc.) knowing which is appropriate to use, having implemented on projects.

Knows how to create, populate and maintain a hazard log.

General awareness that 3rd party organisation SMS, processes and products must be assessed and safety requirements flowed down

Familiar with the legal requirements (MAA RA’s, DMR, LSSR etc.) that require safety arguments/cases to be generated and has created safety arguments/cases for simple products.

Familiar with the requirements for occurrence investigation of incidents.

Contributed to the production of root cause analysis, incident reports and aided in the communication of lessons learnt.

General awareness of the basic safety engineering techniques, concepts and tools (BowTieXP, RWB, FaultTree+, eCassandra, DOORS) and have applied some to their work.

Education

Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience.

Desirable: Masters Degree (MEng, MSc) or postgraduate level in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics-related subject is an advantage.

HNC/HND qualification may be acceptable with relevant experience in the technical areas indicated above

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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