Aircraft System Safety Engineer

Job Description - Aircraft System Safety Engineer

Aircraft System Safety Engineer (Job Number: 335042)

We’re more than aviation experts, we’re pioneers. We challenge what’s possible. From breaking the sound barrier to advanced tiltrotor systems. Today, Bell is shaping the future of aviation through specialized engineering.
And we want you.

The MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) is the premier vertical lift military program in the world. Bell's MV-75 FLRAA aircraft will become the Army's primary assault aircraft for the next 30 years, sun setting UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and advancing the Army's assault capabilities. The MV-75 program is utilizing the latest in cutting-edge technology to expand the United States Army’s tactical advantage in future conflicts.

The Bell MV-75 team seeks the top engineering talents from around the industry to design, develop, and deliver the world’s next-generation military aircraft.

Aircraft System Safety, FLRAA

System Safety Engineering is the key element of Systems Engineering that provides a standardized methodology for the management of lifecycle risks. System Safety Engineers work with engineers across all the integrated product teams that design, test, produce, refine, and improve our aircraft as well as with the pilots who fly our products and the maintenance personnel who troubleshoot, service and maintain the aircraft and subsystems, to identify, evaluate, monitor, and control risk.

This role integrates the detailed analysis of aircraft systems and functional relationships with an in-depth understanding of how the aircraft is operated and how its subsystems are employed to perform the mission.

The System Safety Engineer minimizes operational risks for the customer and maximizes the successful operational employment of our customer’s aircraft.

What you’ll be doing as a System Safety Engineer:

• Ensure effective system safety engineering efforts are conducted through identification and analysis of potential hazards from concept definition through development, production, product fielding and lifetime sustainment.
• Identify and evaluate hazards both qualitatively and quantitatively. Perform detailed analysis of aircraft systems and subsystems, their functioning, crew and maintenance operating procedures and practices, and the operational environment to identify hazard severity and quantify probability of occurrence or qualitatively estimate hazard frequencies.
• Plan, define and verify system safety requirements and develop safety analysis artifacts to ensure design integrity and safety.
• Administer system safety activities for assigned program Integrate Product Teams (IPTs). Interface with the customer and IPT Teammates on safety-related issues. Monitor, investigate, and resolve issues relative to system safety engineering.
• Extensive communication of system safety engineering approach, industry and Bell best practices, and analyses results to internal and external customers to ensure all hazards are identified and mitigated effectively. Mentor fellow engineers as needed based on your expertise and experience.
• Support the development and application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and model-based safety analysis (MBSA) practices to meet customer’s system safety objectives.
• Support Bell’s Safety Management System (SMS) for the control, management and tracking of program risks.
• Establishing software safety requirements in accordance with the appropriate standards and evaluating the functional impacts of noncompliance in coordination with software safety engineers, design subject matter experts (SMEs), suppliers, and the customer as required.

Skills You Bring To this Role:

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams in resolving complex highly integrated functional systems problems.
• Familiarity with the civil safety process defined in Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) ARP-4761 and ARP-4754 and/or defense safety process defined in MIL-STD-882.
• Direct experience in SAE ARP
  4761 analyses:
• Aircraft and System Functional Hazard Assessments (AFHA/SFHAs)
• Aircraft and System Safety Assessment (PASA, PSSA, ASA,…