Chief Systems Safety Engineer

Great salary, BUPA, Benefits & 4 Day Work Week

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Lockheed Martin team in Havant, Hampshire as a Chief Safety Engineer.

We’ll provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work-life balance.

To ensure this, we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.

Our 4 Flex working fortnight is a particular favourite amongst the team, giving you every Friday off, to spend more time doing the things you enjoy.

You will work across the business as the person responsible for safety engineering on our many and varied programmes as well as future capabilities, which we want you to help shape.

These range from safety engineering for a number of helicopter platforms, fixed wing aircraft, autonomous air vehicles and maritime platforms.

You’ll be the leader of the business transformation of our safety culture.

You will primarily be home based with occasional travel to the Havant and Yeovil offices and our customer site in Crawley, Bristol and Culdrose.

This would really suit you if you have a background in Aerospace, particularly rotary wing, and are considered an expert in your field.

You will experience a wide range of engineering activities including:

• Being accountable for leading product safety and managing the work of the product safety team.
• Defining and maintaining a product safety culture across all LM UK RMS business areas, appreciating that product safety decisions have to underwrite LM UKIS’s obligations under DAOS/AAOS certification.
• Providing technical leadership and direction with respect to safety programmes on the portfolio of LM UK programmes.
• Implementing, coordinating and conducting programme safety and environmental related activities in accordance with company procedures in a rigorous and effective manner.
• Owning and fully maintaining all product safety management processes.
• Reviewing, approving and accepting flight approval and safety documentation.
• Providing safety support and expertise to new business proposals as required.
• Representing LM UK at both Senior level, Customer and Major Sub-contractor technical review boards and meetings.
• Reviewing and accepting vendor Engineering Change Proposals.
• Preparing engineering resource budget estimates for product safety activities.
• Leading safety design efforts of Bespoke Aerospace Software/Hardware interfaces and systems.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with clients and suppliers across all levels of the organisation both internally and with the customer.

What’s in it for you?

• To be part of something challenging that gives you a chance to make a difference.
• Working with a supportive team who wants to see you thrive and grow.
• The opportunity to learn and help others master new skills.

Required skills, qualifications and experience:

• Recent, relevant experience of implementation of safety programmes in a prime contractor/systems integration environment.

Working and current knowledge of:

• UK and EU safety related legislation (e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act).
• Environmental legislation and management systems (e.g. ISO14001 etc.).
• Defence and commercial safety standards such as Def Stan 00-056, Def-Stan 00-055, Mil Std 882, IEC61508, DSA02.
• Project Oriented Safety Management System (POSMS).
• Project Oriented Environmental Management System (POEMS).
• Safety Case development using the Adelard Safety Case Editor (ASCE).
• Event Tree and Fault Tree development using Reliability Work Bench.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and reflect our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence.

By engaging with all our employees' diverse talents and experiences every day, we can innovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions and unparalleled customer value.

We know that diversity of thought leads to better solutions for our customers.

Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our job advert.

In addition, we are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable adjustments to our applications process.

If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact or call 02392 458 000.