Aircraft System Safety Engineer

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We are developing the future of Army Aviation with the Bell Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) as part of the US Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) modernization effort. We are also developing the Bell 525 Relentless, and Bell's High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing (HSVTOL) program, a next generation stop-fold 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 effectivesystemssafetyengineering 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 ofaircraftsystems and subsystems, their functioning, crew and maintenance operating procedures and practices, and the operational environment toidentifyhazard severity and quantify probability of occurrence or qualitatively estimate hazard frequencies.
• Plan, define and verifysystemsafety requirements and developsafetyanalysis artifacts to ensure design integrity and safety.
• Administersystemsafety activities for assigned program Integrate Product Teams (IPTs). Interface with the customer and IPT Teammates on safety related issues. Monitor, investigate, and resolve issuesrelativetosystemsafetyengineering.
• Extensive communicationofsystemsafetyengineering approach, industry and Bell best practices, and analyses results to internal and external customers to ensure all hazards areidentifiedand mitigated effectively. Mentor fellow engineers as needed based on yourexpertiseand 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 requirement sin accordance withtheappropriate standard sand 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:

Bell is in the pursuit of System Safety Engineers with a varying capability of experience. The line items outlined below are a comprehensive list of capabilities. Candidates are encouraged to highlight their relevant skillset to the items below.

• 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.

• Directexperiencein SAE ARP
  4761analyses:

o Aircraftand System Functional Hazard Assessments(AFHA/SFHAs)

o Aircraftand System Safety Assessment(PASA, PSSA. ASA, SSA)

o Particular Risk Analysis(PRA)

o Zonal Safety Analysis (ZSA)

o Common Mode Analysis(CMA)

• Direct Experience inMIL-STD-882 analyses:

o Preliminary Hazard…