Astute’s Nuclear Team Recruitment

Astute’s Nuclear Team is partnering with a leading engineering and technology organisation specialising in complex maritime and defence systems to recruit a Safety Engineer to join its established team based at their offices in Winfrith Newburgh.

The Role

The strategically important Safety Engineer role comes with a competitive salary, excellent benefits package including dental insurance, travel insurance and enhanced holiday allowance, flexible working arrangements, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research and development projects that support future technologies and capabilities.

If you’re a Safety Engineer, already hold or are able to obtain SC clearance and are looking to work for an organisation that values innovation, technical excellence, and professional development, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to the Manager, you will:

• Work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, customers, suppliers and assurance bodies to ensure that safety risks are identified, controlled and reduced to an acceptable level.
• The role will involve working across the full engineering lifecycle, from early concept and bid phases through to design, testing, acceptance and in-service support and will include:
  • Developing and maintaining Safety Management Plans and Functional Safety Management Plans.
  • Leading safety and compliance assessments during concept, bid and design phases.
  • Deriving, managing and maintaining safety requirements with full traceability through the engineering lifecycle.
  • Leading hazard identification and risk assessments using techniques including HAZID, HAZOP, SWIFT, FMECA, FTA and ETA.
  • Managing live hazard logs, including control ownership, action tracking, ALARP justification and residual risk.
  • Working with multidisciplinary engineering teams to drive design-led risk reduction and inherently safe solutions.
  • Assessing supplier and system interfaces to ensure appropriate safety controls and evidence are in place.
  • Developing and maintaining structured Safety Cases and supporting safety arguments and justifications.
  • Facilitating hazard workshops, safety working groups and design reviews.
  • Supporting internal and external assurance, certification and customer engagement activities.
  • Providing ongoing safety support through change control, periodic Safety Case reviews and in-service activities.
  • Supporting bid estimating and the management of safety engineering work packages.