Systems Safety Engineer

Location: Brighton (4-5 days per week onsite)
Duration: 6 month contract
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Role details:
Our client, a prominent player in the Defence & Security and Aerospace sectors, is currently seeking a Systems Safety Engineer to join their team in Brighton. You will be required to work onsite 4 days per week, with an initial period of 5 days per week for the first 4 weeks.

• Support the development and management of system requirements, ensuring traceability from customer needs through to verification.
• Support the development of system safety artefacts in accordance with aerospace and defence standards.
• Assist in defining system architecture and interfaces across mechanical, electrical, and software elements.
• Participate in design reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, and test readiness reviews.
• Support the development of system safety artefacts in accordance with aerospace and defence standards.
• Assist in performing hazard identification and analysis activities.
• Contribute to safety assessments such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Support the development and maintenance of Hazard Logs.
• Ensure safety requirements are captured, allocated, and verified within the system design.
• Managing the Quarterly Airworthiness Review Board.

• Experience working within complex engineering systems (aerospace, defence, or high-integrity industries).
• Understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle management.
• Experience managing technical documentation and requirements.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience with safety standards such as ARP4754, ARP4761, MIL-STD-882, and Def Stan 00-056.
• Experience with requirements management.
• Experience contributing to hazard analyses (FMEA, FTA, FHA).
• Understanding of reliability analyses.
• Knowledge of Reliasoft software tools (desirable)
• Aerospace or defence programme experience.

If you are a skilled Systems Safety Engineer looking for a challenging contract opportunity in the Aerospace and Defence sectors, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's innovative and dynamic team in Brighton.