Key areas of responsibility

Depending on your level of experience, you will:

• Deliver safety engineering activities across projects, contributing to planning and execution using appropriate tools (e.g. JIRA, JAMA).
• Support or lead safety work packages, ensuring activities are delivered to time, cost and quality expectations.
• Apply recognised safety analysis techniques such as FMEA, HAZOP and BowTie.
• Contribute to or define safety strategy and methodology, including identification of deliverables and milestones.
• Support system design activities, including architectural evaluations, trade studies and technical feasibility analysis.
• Produce and maintain safety documentation, ensuring it is clear, consistent and meets customer requirements.
• Develop safety arguments and artefacts, including hazard logs, legislation compliance assessments, and safety case reports.
• Engage with internal teams, building effective working relationships.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Rowden's safety engineering practices and processes.
• Present work and progress at project reviews (with increasing responsibility at higher grades)

At a more senior level, you will also:

• Lead safety strategy and delivery across projects or programmes.
• Provide technical leadership and domain expertise.
• Manage stakeholders and customer interfaces.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers.
• Shape and improve organisational safety capability.

Key Skills, Experience And Behaviours

Essential (all levels)

• An understanding of systems engineering and safety engineering principles.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work within cross-functional teams.

Developing / Mid-level engineers may bring

• Experience supporting safety activities such as hazard identification and analysis.
• Familiarity with safety lifecycles and common techniques (e.g. FMEA, HAZOP).
• Experience contributing to safety documentation and requirements.
• An understanding of relevant standards, regulations, or engineering environments.

Senior engineers may bring

• Proven experience leading safety engineering activities across the lifecycle.
• Strong capability in safety requirements elicitation, including derived requirements.
• Deep knowledge of safety analysis techniques and when to apply them.
• Experience defining safety strategy and influencing system design.
• Ability to manage work packages, priorities, and dependencies.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.
• Confidence engaging with customers and presenting at reviews.
• Knowledge of Government engineering and procurement environments.

Working at Rowden

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!

We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.

Finally, if you feel that you don't meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we'd still love to hear from you!

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