Role: Safety Engineer
Contract Length: Until 31/03/26
Location: Bristol
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Safety Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SAFETY ENGINEER
- Requirements – Own the generation of technical safety requirements and documentation for a project, considering to in-service support and associated costs. This includes the generation, updating, reviewing, endorsing, and recommending acceptance of safety artefacts.
- Technical Data – Develops, manages, and maintains effective Safety Management Systems. Identifies and analyses hazards and contributes to the identification and evaluation of risk reduction measures, ensuring that these are adequately documented and managed.
- Legislation/Policy – Working in a highly regulated area, educate others with relevant safety legislation, regulation, policy, processes, and standards to deliver technical documentation for a sub-system. This includes the essential relation to quality, safety, security, and sustainability, of the system, and the interoperability with other sub-systems.
- Risk - Identifies and analyses safety impacts and contributes to the identification and evaluation of risk reduction measures, ensuring that these are adequately documented and managed.
- Design – Provide informed and accurate acquisition safety engineering advice and guidance, across the various Environmental and Technical Themes, and to decision makers through Project Safety Panels.
- Stakeholder Management – Oversees the management of contractual aspects to ensure safety requirements are captured and the management of contractors who perform safety activities.
- V&V – Manage the system’s safety: test, verification, validation, and evaluation process.
- Support – Develops and maintains project safety assurance plans, monitors compliance, and ensures that safety assurance evidence is gathered and assessed for safety case preparation.
- Assurance – Lead on safety assurance activities within the limit of your technical discipline.
- Disposal – Manage the safety engineering aspects of disposals and decommissioning of basic equipment.
- Technical Discipline – Support the development and maintenance of policy and process to satisfy the DE&S corporate standards for Acquisition Safety.
- Personal Development - Own your career progression and professionalisation. This includes engaging with your People Coach, maintaining membership and registration level, with a relevant Professional body, updating MyHR Career Development/Development Plan, conducting relevant learning and development in timely fashion, and keeping current with modern engineering technologies.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SAFETY ENGINEER
- Hold a Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics based qualification at RQF Level 4; and
- Have wide ranging depth and breadth experience of providing technical advice and delivery of successful safety systems/acquisition engineering outcomes; and
- Demonstrate experience of providing technical advice and leading the delivery of successful safety systems/acquisition engineering outcomes; and
- With a relevant Professional body/institution related to your discipline, be professionally registered as either: Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or Registered Scientist (RSci)
- Determine and assist others in understanding how to apply correct technical legislation, regulation, standards, policies, and processes to use and follow during acquisition and support to equipment.
- Determine and assist others in understanding how to apply the most effective and efficient ways to process data.
- Select suitable communication methods and advise others appropriately if they are not.
- Resolve potential conflicts between stakeholders.
- Take appropriate action in reacting and responding to routine issues (such as reporting safety incidents, suggesting efficiency benefits).
- Manage others in conducting in-depth analysis on products or process and identify the correct action to rectify issues identified.
- Make timely decisions related to accuracy and efficiency of your own and others’ work.
- Effectively establish priorities and work sequencing.
- Manage risks at the appropriate time to meet all regulatory requirements, including where and when to safely quarantine equipment/products.
- Plan and manage your own time and those reporting to you, to deliver at pace.
- Carry out the correct action for coaching and supervision required for junior and/or equivalent graded staff that you may work with.
- Identify your own shortfalls in knowledge and discuss appropriate options for self-development, setting short and medium priorities.
- Coach others to find the most appropriate internal policy and processes.
If you are a Safety Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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