Principal Safety Engineer/Safety Lead
Listed on 2026-02-06
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists, Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics
Overview
Date Posted:
Country: United States of America
Location: US-AZ-TUCSON-848 ~ 1151 E Hermans Rd ~ BLDG 848
Position Role Type: Onsite
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Security Clearance: Secret - Current
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Principal System Safety Engineer to join us onsite in Tucson, AZ, as Safety Lead for our AMRAAM program.
- Practical application of project management skills
- Create/update the strategy for the program to meet all its milestones with system safety features integrated into the product in compliance with contract and awarded funding.
- Create a schedule and integrate safety tasks and activities into program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Plan/manage the safety program effort within the Program IMS.
- Understanding of the safety budget and tasking through close coordination with the responsible CAM / IPTL / product owner, including EACs.
- Mentor junior safety engineers.
- Remove barriers impacting team members.
- Actively engage in engineering review boards, and configuration control boards to stay on top of design changes, and assess impacts to the established safety program.
- Establish on-going feedback loop with functional and program management.
- Lead & coordinate System Safety Working Group(s) between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.
- Confidence to escalate risks to the appropriate level and follow through on corrective actions.
- Proficient in interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military standards, so as to recommend compliance strategies to program leadership:
Chief Engineer, Program Manager, Integrated Product Team Lead, etc. - Effectively collaborate with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks:
Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Environmental Safety, & Health, Human Systems Interfaces, Test Engineering. - Manage safety related interactions with suppliers and/or subcontractors.
- Creatively innovate better safety solutions. Identify best practices to improve overall safety culture at Raytheon.
- Understand and shape system safety/Human System Interfaces postures across the lifecycle (design, integration/ test, flight test, production, field, returns).
- Typically requires a 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 management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400). This includes hardware and software safety related tasks.
- Experience with presentation skills to brief safety status to safety approval authority at technical reviews, safety review boards, and others as part of the safety approval process.
- Experience managing a safety program.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks.
- An active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
- Experience with briefing at the military safety review board.
Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value:
Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
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- Onsite:
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