Principal Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) - Defence Consulting

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Principal Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) - Defence Consulting

Posting Date: 14 Mar 2025

Location: Chippenham, United Kingdom, SN15 1BN; Leatherhead, United Kingdom, KT22 7AJ; Lincoln, United Kingdom, LN6 7FL

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Electronics and Systems Engineering

Level of experience: Senior

RINA is looking for a highly experienced Independent Safety Auditor to join its specialist and growing Safety Engineering 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 and/or ISA capability, providing the Defence sector and the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) with world-class safety advisory services.

The Safety Engineering team delivers critical projects across some of the most technically advanced programmes in UK Defence, including carrier, unmanned air systems, Apache, Chinnock, Typhoon, Air Traffic Management systems (ATM), but to name a few. The successful candidate will be encouraged to take a lead on safety critical or ISA projects, not only saving lives but also driving engineering efficiency.

This role can be based out of our Chippenham, Lincoln or Leatherhead offices though RINA is a 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, 3-4 days/week.

The role:

• You will lead a variety of Safety Audit client 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 functional safety engineering in high hazard environments, with at least three years operating as an ISA.
• Knowledge of UK MOD (Defence) air platforms, ATM, or the MAA.
• Comprehensive understanding of Defence Standards such as DefStan 00-055 / 056 / 970, MAA MRP, DSA01/02 and JSPs such as 815, 375, 418.
• 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 Aerospace & Defence (ASD) UK:

RINA S&D UK has been awarded Gold status with the Armed Forces Covenant Employers Recognition Scheme and proudly supports those who serve.

RINA ASD UK is a key technical engineering partner to the Defence sector, providing a portfolio of consultancy services, including functional Safety, ILS, Training and Software/Systems Assurance. It has a proven track record and excellent reputation in supporting and improving performance for some of the military's most technically advanced programmes across air, land, sea, and cyber.

RINA Group:

RINA is a 6,000 strong global engineering services firm, with a heritage in Classification and Certification. It provides innovative safety-related services to Defence, Energy, Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables and Transport & Infrastructure. Operating out of 70 countries, RINA offers significant depth of experience across all engineering disciplines. RINA has a strong reputation for providing services that are of the highest quality, creating significant value add.

Why RINA:

In addition to working on exciting and rewarding projects, you will be working with a close-knit team of like-minded engineering consultants, all with a focus on delivering outputs. We empower you to manage your workload, as well as providing all the support when needed.

• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays)
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance cover (Family can be added at an additional cost)
• Option to buy more holiday
• Hybrid Working policy
• Professional development, support with qualifications (i.e. Chartership)
• Pay for professional membership
• Support of Military Reservists - 10 additional paid days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral bonus
• 4 half days paid leave for STEM Ambassadors