Principal Safety Engineer

Principal System Safety Engineer

Location:

Huntsville, AL, United States of America. Role type:
Onsite.

• Create and update the program strategy to meet all milestones, integrating system safety features into the product in compliance with contract and funding requirements.
• Develop a schedule and incorporate safety tasks and activities into the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Plan and manage the safety program effort within the Program IMS, coordinating with the CAM, IPTL, product owner and EACs to understand the safety budget and tasking.
• Mentor junior safety engineers and remove barriers impacting team members.
• Actively engage in engineering review boards and configuration control boards to stay on top of design changes and to assess impacts to the established safety program.
• Maintain an ongoing feedback loop with functional and program management.
• Lead and coordinate System Safety Working Groups between Raytheon and customer representatives.
• Escalate risks to the appropriate level and follow through on corrective actions.
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications and military standards so as to recommend compliance strategies to program leadership.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across systems, software, firmware, electrical, hardware, environmental safety, human systems interfaces, and test engineering to identify and mitigate risks.
• Manage safety-related interactions with suppliers and/or subcontractors.
• Innovate better safety solutions and identify best practices to improve the overall safety culture at RTX.
• Understand and shape system safety and human system interfaces postures across the lifecycle (design, integration/test, flight test, production, field, returns).

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience developing and implementing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses, involving task series 100 (management), 200 (analysis), 300 (evaluation), and 400 (verification), for both hardware and software safety related tasks.
• Experience with presentation skills to brief safety status to approval authorities at technical reviews, safety review boards, and other safety approval processes.
• Experience managing a safety program and collaborating with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.

• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance.
• Experience briefing at the military safety review board.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs, subject to level of position and collective-bargaining agreement.

Salary Range: 107,500 USD – 204,500 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

Security clearance:
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.