System Safety Engineer

Position: Staff System Safety Engineer
Title:
Staff System Safety Engineer

Location:
Orlando, FL & Grand Prairie, TX

Shift: 4/10 schedule 1st Shift

Duration: 12 months

Description:

The Staff System Safety Engineer (SSE) is responsible for ensuring that the products developed at LMMFC and sold to the customer are safe for the war fighter to use.

A successful candidate will employ safety analysis techniques which will be performed on the end item and its subsystems.

The primary job responsibility will be that of performing hazard analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements.

The Staff SSE analyzes and recommends safety features and controls for system design, software, training and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards.

The Staff SSE also performs and supports the development of safety documentation to satisfy customer and contractual requirements.

The candidate works with systems and software engineering on architecture definition, use cases and generates software safety analyses in accordance with government guidelines.

Expectations are the Staff SSE can work independently with minimal oversight, based on professional experience and educational background, while helping mentor and train early career SSEs in the System Safety discipline.

Additional job duties may include the following:

• Support the program by developing hazard analyses, software safety assessments, hazardous material management planning and execution.

• Analyze and recommend safety criteria in system design, equipment and procedures to control or eliminate hazards.

• Prepare and deliver presentations at technical reviews and customer briefings.

• Flow down system safety requirements to suppliers and verify design implementation.

• Assist in requirements development and verification.

• Reviews specifications, technical documentation, and design changes for impacts to system safety.

• Support customer and test/operational range requirements

• Participates in the development of testing activities to ensure safety requirements are satisfied.

• Prepare technical documentation and presentation material to support various independent safety board meetings to gain approval on system design.

• Participates in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assists in identification of causes and corrective actions.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in an engineering discipline

• Experience developing and implementing a System Safety Program IAW MIL-STD-882

• Developing and evaluating system safety requirements

• Familiarity with implementing a Software Safety Program IAW AOP-52 and DoD guidelines

• Proficient knowledge of MIL-STD-882 and its associated analyses

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Ability to make formal presentations to large groups

• Interacts well in a team atmosphere with engineers, suppliers, program managers and customers

Desired

Skills:



• Experience supporting independent government Safety Review Boards

• Knowledge of Human Factors Engineering

• Familiarity with missile and launcher systems

• Model-based engineering knowledge

• Experience with DOORS requirements application

• Candidate should be a self-starter capable of performing tasks with little direction

• Effective analytical problem solving skills, the ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy

• Able to learn and work with System Safety specific software tools