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Are you passionate about safety, environmental protection, and functional safety? Do you have experience or an interest in safety engineering and assurance? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our growing Independent Safety and Environmental Assurance (ISEA) team within Expert Services (ES). The ISEA team is a dynamic group of specialists in safety environment, OME and functional safety assurance. Our mission is to provide independent assurance to safety and environmental areas at all levels, ensuring compliance with legislation, JSP 815, JSP 816, and other lower-level policies such as unified SEMS/ASEMS, regulations, and standards, both defence and civilian where applicable. As an ISEA Specialist, you will bring your expertise in legal, policy, regulatory, and standards frameworks to support Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) environments, technologies, or external customers such as the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA). You will be working within a significant and expanding assurance area, providing the business with independent safety assurance services across a range of projects and programmes. Collaborating with a team of experts, you will play a key role in delivering assurance services for complex environment and equipment. You will have experience with systems safety and its utilisation in complex systems. Knowledge of Defence Standards such as DEF STAN 00-056 and safety standards and other defence safety standards (STANAG, Mil Std, etc). This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a growing team that plays a critical role in ensuring safety and environmental compliance across Defence projects.
Job Responsibility:
Lead technical safety assurance activities and collaborate with stakeholders to assure the systems and equipment we deliver are safe to operate
Working in a highly regulated area, educate others with relevant legislation, regulation, policy, processes, and standards to provide assurance against technical documentation for a sub-system
Identify and analyse safety acquisition risk reduction measures, assuring that these are adequately documented and managed
Develops and maintains ISEA safety assurance plans, monitors compliance, and ensures that safety assurance is sufficient to demonstrate that systems are safe to operate
Also produces, reviews, endorses, and recommends acceptance of safety related artefacts, which includes when equipment/system is operational or being modified
Requirements:
Must have either demonstrable experience of audit and assurance activities to an applicable standard (e.g. ISO 9001, 45001 or 14001)
An understanding of Systems Safety in the defence environment, e.g. DEF STAN 00-056
Hold a Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics based qualification at Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) Level 4 or demonstrable relevant experience
Be professionally registered or intend to be professionally registered with a relevant Professional body/institution related to your discipline, as either: Registered Scientist (RSci) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
Must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years
Must obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance without any caveats
What we offer:
Ministry of Defence contributes £13,442 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
25 days’ annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
Market-leading average employer pension contribution of 28.97%
Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards
Access to specialist training and funded qualifications