Principal Safety Engineer, Defence Aviation
Job Description
Job title: Principal Safety Engineer, Defence Aviation
Company: RINA
Job description: RINA is looking for a highly experienced Air Safety Engineering Consultant to join a specialist and growing team working for Defence clients across all aviation platforms including unmanned, fixed wing and rotary. This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and shape RINA’s Safety Engineering and/or ISA capability, providing the Defence sector and the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) with world class safety advisory services.
This role can be based out of our Chippenham, Lincoln or Leatherhead offices though RINA is smart/hybrid working organisation, so living within commuter distance of the office is not necessarily required. Moderate travel across the UK is required though. Despite being a permanent position, we will also consider a part-time (PAYE) role (i.e. 4 days/week).
Responsibilities:
- You will lead a variety of Safety Engineering projects to ensure requirements are delivered on time, to budget, and to the required quality;
- You will manage projects either as an individual or managing a small team;
- Support with bids, proposals, analysis and report writing;
- Promote RINA’s Safety capability to customers, providing expert counsel, through face-to-face liaison, relationship building and presentations;
- Assist the Safety management team with augmenting safety capability to meet new and emerging market demands;
- This is not a Health & Safety (HSE) role.
Qualifications & experience:
- At least ten years’ experience in the application of safety engineering management solutions is high hazard environments;
- Knowledge of UK MOD (Defence) air platforms, Air Traffic Management (ATM), or the MAA;
- Experience in conducting Hazard & Safety Risk Analysis or Independent Safety Assurance (ISA) projects and have developed safety cases;
- Experience in the use and application of Safety Engineering tools such as Reliability Workbench, ASCE, BowTie, ETA or FTA;
- Some working knowledge of the following Defence Standards: Def Stan 00-056, Def Stan 00-970 series, ARP 4754 or ARP 4761;
- An understanding of how UK MOD frameworks (i.e. Aurora) operate;
- Some working knowledge of ASEMS, POSMS and POEMS processes;
- You will have an engineering background;
- Ideally you will have UK Security Clearance, or you must be a British citizen and be prepared to go through vetting.
About RINA Defence Consulting:
RINA Defence consulting has been awarded Gold status with the Armed Forces Covenant Employers Recognition Scheme and proudly supports those who serve.
We are a key engineering consulting partner to the Defence sector, providing a portfolio of consultancy services, including Safety Engineering, Environmental Safety, Integrated Logistics Support, Training Analysis, Cyber Assurance, Human Factors and Data Science & Analytics.
We offer the opportunity for you to specialise in your chosen technical specialism whilst working on a diverse range of client engagements, supporting some of the military’s most technically advanced programmes.
About RINA:
RINA is a 6,00 strong global engineering services firm, providing innovative services to critical industry sectors, including Defence, Industrial, Energy, Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables, Transport and infrastructure sectors. It operates out of 70 countries, giving us the depth of experience across engineering disciplines and have a strong reputation providing services that are of the highest quality, creating significant value to our clients. #LI-JB1
The Benefits we offer:
On top of a competitive salary we also provide the following benefits:
- Private medical insurance
- Life Assurance
- 6% Pension Contributions
- 25 days annual leave (option to buy extra days)
- Competitive maternity cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Military reservists additional annual leave
- STEM ambassadors additional annual leave
- Professional membership contribution
- Professional development (i.e. Chartership)
- Lucrative employee referral bonus
At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
Expected salary:
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire
