System Safety Engineer; Aerospace

Responsibilities

• Perform system safety engineering activities during the aircraft lifecycle, from system definition and development through verification, validation, and certification.
• Develop, update and maintain system safety assessments in accordance with applicable regulations, aerospace standards, and guidance, including:
• Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA).
• Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA).
• System Safety Assessments (SSA).
• Zonal Safety Assessments (ZSA).
• Common Mode Analyses (CMA).
• Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) safety justifications.
• Define safety requirements derived from safety analyses, ensuring proper allocation, implementation, traceability, and verification at aircraft, system, and item level.
• Coordinate closely with systems engineering and design teams to ensure safety requirements are correctly implemented.
• Support definition of the systems architecture, define safety mitigation actions, and review design changes resulting from system development to achieve required safety objectives.
• Participate in aircraft integration activities ensuring safety objectives are achieved.
• Provide system safety inputs to mandated system reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Liaise with certification authorities and suppliers.
• Support flight test activities by providing system safety inputs, classifying occurrences according to their impact on safety, and contributing to the definition of mitigation actions.
• Support continuous improvement of the company system safety processes and provide system safety guidance to engineers when required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent technical engineering degree.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a System Safety Engineer in the aerospace industry during aircraft development, integration, test, and certification phases for civil and/or military aircraft programs.
• Good knowledge of applicable certification regulations and guidance, such as:
• 14 CFR Part 23 and/or EASA CS-23.
• FAA AC 23.1309-1E.
• Solid understanding and application of ARP
  4761 and ARP
  4754.
• Experience developing and maintaining all of the following system safety activities: FHA, PSSA, SSA, ZSA, PRA, CMA.