Associate Land Safety Engineer

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Location:

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Role Type:
Permanent – Full Time

Package: £45,000 – £50,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role : SF20747

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Associate Land Safety Engineer at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role
As an Associate Land Safety Engineer, you will play a key role in assuring the safety of some of the UK's most complex and innovative Defence capabilities, helping customers operate legacy and novel Land equipment and technologies. Working across Land and Weapons programmes, you will support the delivery of independent safety advice, safety assessments and safety assurance activities for military capabilities.

Projects are predominantly Land equipment which includes a wide range of crewed, uncrewed and autonomous systems, as well other equipment such as communication systems, radars and sensors.

Day-to-day, you'll support safety engineering activities such as development of safety cases and hazard assessments and have opportunities to engage directly with Defence and QinetiQ customers and stakeholders across a range of programmes. You'll have opportunities to work closely with the wider engineering teams and systems engineers to ensure safety requirements are understood, implemented and evidenced throughout the project lifecycle.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support hazard identification and safety case development across a range of systems
• Analyse complex issues and deliver practical, auditable solutions that meet customer requirements
• Prepare safety engineering outputs and recommendations for review and approval
• Work within Military Regulatory Authority policies and applicable safety standards
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support project delivery and capability growth
• Deliver tasks to agreed time, cost and quality standards while developing expertise in safety engineering tools and methods

Essential experience of the Associate Land Safety Engineer:

• An understanding of relevant standards, legislation and regulatory frameworks
• Knowledge of judgement required for reliably identifying and managing risks, and also for selecting the most appropriate and practical solution from a range of options
• Confident questioning, listening, influencing and general interpersonal skills to obtain relevant and accurate information from others
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills

Essential qualifications for the Associate Land Safety Engineer:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the…