Chief Safety Engineer; AAR

The Opportunity

Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for a Sector Chief Safety Engineer, with experience of airborne design assurance using ARP
4754A / 4761, RTCA DO-254, and / or DO-178C. You will lead a team of system safety professionals to deliver complex products, in conjunction with Systems Engineering, that are safe, secure and highly reliable. The position is within Advanced AESA Radar, one of the three delivery sectors within Leonardo’s Radar and Advanced Targeting Systems (RATS) Line of Business (LoB).

The target application areas in the sector include Mission Management Systems, Airborne Fire Control Radar and a range of modular Surveillance Radar products, deployed on a wide range of crewed and uncrewed airborne systems, addressing specific challenges such as flight certification of DO-365 / 366 Detect and Avoid Systems.

You will be responsible, through your team, for managing the Product Safety and Environmental Impact of the Sector’s product portfolio, via implementation of the Leonardo Electronics UK Business Unit’s Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System (PSEIMS). This includes responsibility for the monitoring and development of the capability (SQEP) of your team, accountable to the Head of Product Safety for the Line of Business.

Your accountabilities will include delivery of safety programmes within the Sector to cost and schedule, supporting the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) throughout the Product Lifecycle, including business winning. The key accountability is ensuring that processes, plans and people are sufficient to achieve Military and / or Civil Type certification, while applying innovative technologies such as AI / ML, Autonomy, Multicore processors, IMA, MBSE and Agile methods

The Sector Chief Safety Engineer also forms part of the independent assurance function, dependent on experience achieving delegated board signatory for Product Safety, supporting Certificates of Design (CoD) and Declarations of Design and Performance (DDPs).

The RATS LoB is located in Edinburgh and Newcastle and occasional travel will be requested to other locations within the UK and Internationally.

You will work closely with supportive, talented and innovative engineers across the Engineering delivery disciplines, contributing to the continual improvement of the Engineering Capability of the Leonardo Electronics UK Business Unit, whilst building strong relationships with our customers and partners.

Day to day, you will be accountable to the Head of Product Safety for RATS, working closely with Head of Engineering Products within the Sector, to satisfy the regulatory requirements of airborne systems, including Mission Critical and Flight Safety Involved systems; often with demanding Product Security requirements.

• Lead the Engineering Management and delivery of System and Product safety activities across the sector, working closely with Systems Engineering.
• Provide independent Safety Management Specialist input to adjacent sectors within the LoB.
• Provide independent assessment of safety through Product Design Reviews.
• Participate in Product Safety Panels as a specialist advisor in the management and resolution of Product Safety and Product Environmental incidents.
• Ensure that the data associated with Sector Product Safety incidents in the Company corrective action management system is correct and up to date.
• Provide the focus for the provision of independent specialist guidance and information on best practices, standards and legislation.
• Promote the specialism and Safety Culture within the business.
• Participate in internal and external standards working groups and with academic partners covering Development Standards and Acceptable Means of Compliance using various established and emerging standards, such as : SAE AS6983, ARP
  4754, ARP
  4761;
  
  AMC
  20-152A; AMC
  20-193;
  
  RTCA DO-254, DO-178C, DO-326A / 356A, DO-365C, DO-366A.
• Promote continual improvement of the Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System.

• Demonstrable and relevant experience analysing complex systems from a Product Safety and Product Environmental…