Principal Safety Engineer

Role: Senior/Principal Safety Engineer

Location: Southampton(3 days remote, 2 days onsite)

Duration: 6 months

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About our Client:

Our client is a leading UK-based defence and security company, supporting government and commercial partners through advanced research, technology development, and specialist services. They play a key role in enhancing national security, innovation, and operational capability across critical domains.

Key responsibilities:

• Advice to customer with safety management arrangements for defence land based systems.
• compliance with Def Stan 00-056, 00-055, 61508, POSMS
• Chair Hazard workshops
• Hazard log
• Identification of derived safety requirements
• Safety argument for a computer based system, software and data integrity
• Safety and Environmental Case report
• Safety and Environmental Management plan (updates)
• working within a QinetiQ team of other SMEs
• reach back to software safety assurance expertise
• Agile lifecycle -experience of collaborative working in multi discipline teams

Experience required:

• Need to be self-starter work on own initiative confident interacting with customers.
• Ability to lead workshops and safety discussions.
• Sufficient experience of 61508.
• Agile methods
• Cloud based systems.
• Principles of data safety.

Please apply if you want to be part of leading global defence company!

Due to the nature of the work carried out at our client's site, these roles are subject to specific nationality requirements and are only open to sole British citizens. Candidates who meet this criterion will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting.