Senior System Safety and Environmental Engineer; IAS

Location:

Belfast, United Kingdom

Known internally as System Safety & Environmental Engineer

Based in Belfast, 4.5 days/week onsite, with travel. Other: permanent, full-time, for eligible candidates, relocation support can be provided.

Help shape the safety of next-generation defence technologies, ensuring mission-critical systems are safe, compliant and certifiable throughout their lifecycle.

• Lead safety strategy on complex, mission-critical programmes – operate at a principal level, providing technical leadership and influencing the safety assurance approach across some of the UK's most advanced defence systems
• Shape safety across the entire system lifecycle – from concept and architecture through to certification, in-service support and disposal, you'll have a unique opportunity to influence product development end-to-end and leave a lasting impact on system design
• Drive innovation in a rapidly evolving environment – join a growing business delivering next-generation capabilities at pace, where you'll tackle complex safety challenges, mentor others and help define the future of systems safety engineering within Thales

As a Senior System Safety & Environmental Engineer, you'll ensure Thales products achieve certification, meet stringent safety standards and perform safely in operational environments. You'll lead hazard analysis, define safety requirements and drive risk reduction activities across complex engineering programmes. From concept and design through to verification, certification and deployment, you'll provide technical leadership on safety-critical hardware and programmable elements, influencing engineering decisions and developing compelling safety cases backed by robust assurance evidence.

Your work will directly enable the delivery of safe, compliant and trusted solutions for our customers.

We're seeking candidates with a strong Systems Safety Engineering background, ideally with experience in software safety assurance. While software safety expertise is highly desirable, we are also keen to hear from experienced Safety Engineers from aerospace, defence or other highly regulated industries.

Building a Future, we can all trust.

Integrated Airspace Protection Systems (IAS) - our main purpose is to protect and defend. We provide rapid integrated solutions for detection, coordination, fire control, engagement and support. We cover three sectors:
Surface Attack & Air Defence (UK), Air Defence (International) and Air Operations & Services as well as Space.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package designed to support our employees’ wellbeing and professional growth, which includes:

• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

• Lead and deliver all Safety & Environmental Management (S&EM) activities within integrated project teams, ensuring compliance with the IAS Safety Management System and the effective assurance of safety-critical programmable elements
• Conduct hazard identification, hazard analysis and risk assessment activities
  , defining robust safety and environmental requirements across system performance, design, integration, interfaces and verification activities
• Influence multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
  , developing clear, evidence-based safety arguments that ensure S&EM requirements…