Functional Safety Engineer
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Functional Safety Engineer
Location: Cumbria / Hybrid
Job type: Contract outside IR35
Rate: Competitive
Delkia is a specialist engineering and technology company for safetyrelated and mission critical systems in highly regulated sectors including aerospace clean energy and maritime sectors. Our offer incorporates: engineering design technical consultancy and systems integration.
We believe that engineering is not just about technology manufacturing and innovation. Its about the people behind it. Delkia ensures that its teams are the focus of its business through passion belief and simply a better way of working resulting in great outcomes for our customers. Were also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and invest in future talent through supporting STEM initiatives apprenticeships placements and summer interns.
The companys Head Office is at Westlakes Science and Technology Park in West Cumbria with systems integration assembly & testing facilities in Egremont Cumbria and design offices in Preston Lancashire. This is augmented by a network of staff working across the UK creating a dynamic and highly skilled team.
Come and join a company that values our people and is growing fast.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct safety analyses of software elements for vehicle control system within an incrementally delivered software product scope.
Production of hazard analysis and safety assessment documentation
Maintain hazard / safety assessment logs and produce associated documentation.
Provision of safety advice to software developers with respect to software functional design
Provision of safety advice to management team and other stakeholders with respect to software / hardware integration
Supporting software developers through the safety process
Interaction with and influence of the computing solution developers as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies
Interaction with and influence of whole product safety management practitioners / wider product team as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies
Providing continuous improvement feedback into the safety team
Qualifications & Skills:
Chartered Engineer or suitable level of experience to achieve this.
Practitioner level safety engineering experience in Aerospace / Nuclear / Defence domains
Ability to work at whole product system subsystem component and subcomponent (eg: hardware/software) levels considering integration and interaction issues between and within these levels
Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders within a complex project
Comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment (in terms of scope processes and delivery)
Selfstarting able to work alone or within a team providing appropriate levels of leadership as necessary.
Well versed with safety management processes and common analysis techniques intrinsic and common cause.
Experience in Model Based System Engineering and System Engineering workflows.
Experience with civil standards for development of programmable electronic systems (eg: IEC 61508)
Experience with civil standards for system development in the Aerospace or Nuclear domain (e.g: ARP4754/ARP4761 or IEC61511)
Experience with high level UK defence safety management standards (e.g.: DefStan 00055 DefStan 00056) including their relationship to UK safety law criminal and civil aspects.
Experience with complex distributed electronic control systems and/or interrelated safety systems within a multihazard environment.
An appreciation of Agile programme management practices
Vision:
To be the leading engineering and technology partner for safetyrelated and missioncritical systems.
Mission:
To enable a safer more resilient world through the provision of engineering and technological solutions. We take pride in our role as a partner for safetycritical systems ensuring the protection of people assets and missions that matter most.
Values:
Collaboration and teamwork
Integrity trust and accountability
Safety and security
Client focused
Positive social value and impact
Continuous improvement
Purpose: Our purpose is to protect lives and critical assets.
Equal opportunities: Delkia is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex race disability age sexual orientation gender reassignment religion or belief marital status or pregnancy and maternity.
Please be aware that many roles working for Delkia will be subject to security vetting restrictions.
All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
Note to Agencies: Delkia has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any unsolicited CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Delkia and any terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.
Employment Type
Full Time
