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Principal Safety Engineer; Contractor

Job in Blackwood, Caerphilly County, NP12, Wales, UK
Listing for: General Dynamics Missions System International
Contract position
Listed on 2026-09-01
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Safety Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Principal Safety Engineer (Contractor)

We are hiring a Principal Safety Engineer who is accountable for enacting the GDUK Safety Policy; primarily this is discharged by execution of Safety Management Programmes to address Functional and Non-Functional Safety aspects.

The successful candidate will be a Chartered Engineer with several years experience of leading safety elements of large programmes and sometimes delivering across multiple project/programmes. The ability to input into the businesss safety capability provide strategic safety leadership and deliver flexible and innovative approaches in the military land sea and air environment is a major requirement of this role.

The candidate will be responsible for the creation and management of Safety Plans and Safety & Environmental Cases in accordance with GDUK processes.

They will provide analysis of software and hardware design capabilities in order to identify hazards their causes and consequences and formulates specific functional safety requirements and/or operational processes.

Qualifications :

Expertise in the following should be demonstrated:

  • Demonstrable breadth and depth of experience / competence in Safety Engineering for large scale system of systems or a background that provides the equivalent transferrable experience / competence.
  • Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (or equivalent) an MSc in System Safety would be advantageous
  • Chartered Engineer or equivalent status is highly desirable.
  • Track record of delivery on Safety and Environmental programmes
  • Understanding of Systems Engineering
  • Experience of functional safety and system of systems safety

Competence in the following areas:

  • System and product safety case plans and reports
  • Software Safety
  • Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis
  • Modular Safety Cases and Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)
  • Def Stan; 00-056; IEC 61508; ; DO-254; DO-178B and C;
  • HAZOPS
  • Safety Integrity Levels (SILs)
  • Legislative compliance and knowledge of current/future safety and environmental legislation
  • CCA
  • OHHA / OSHA

Additional Information :

General Dynamics Mission Systems utilises QDOS IR35 Status Review. The requirements of this contract have been evaluated as Outside IR35 Prior to the engagement start you will need to complete a status questionnaire in order to receive the finalised status determination.

All successful/appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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