System Safety Engineer

Job Description

SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Occasional travel within internationally but not mandatory

LOCATION:

Site (60% of your working week must be office based)

TYPE:
Full time

• Financial Reward:
  Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax‑free technology scheme, shopping discounts and much
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, option to buy/sell holiday
• Personal Development:
  Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E‑learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
• Health & Wellbeing:
  Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle‑towork scheme, on‑site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga / meditation
• Family and Caregiving:
  Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose built maternity rooms on site
• Inclusive Environment:
  Wellbeing room, Multi‑faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)

The team of around 70 safety engineers is based in five separate locations around Europe and is accountable for the safety activities (functional and physical) for all Airbus aircraft systems.

The Safety & Reliability team is key in ensuring that systems architectures and their integration on the aircraft comply with the latest airworthiness regulations and safety processes.

As a system safety & reliability specialist, you will play an integral part in ensuring that all Airbus products are developed, designed, produced and supported according to the state‑of‑art and the relevant safety standards (associated to airworthiness regulations).

• Review systems design and in‑service solutions through understanding how failures will affect systems operation
• Contribute to the safety "validation and verification" activities at systems level
• Generate and review Safety Assessment and Analyses for Aircraft Systems (FHA, pSSA, SSA, Fault Trees, Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments)
• Generate and review Common Cause Analyses such as Particular Risk Analyses, Zonal Safety Analysis and Common Mode Analyses
• Support the System Design Teams and suppliers to ensure compliance against the safety objectives.
• Liaise with key stakeholders e.g. Chief Engineer, Design Team Leaders regarding risks that will affect the safety of the aircraft and work closely with these stakeholders to manage these risks
• Analyse in‑service occurrences to ensure safety compliance of the In‑Service fleet.

• University degree in Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering.
• Proven experience in Aeronautical engineering, ideally in the field of Safety and Reliability Engineering.
• Good knowledge of Aircraft Systems
• Experience of Safety processes, regulations and guidelines (CS/AC 25.1309, ARP 4761, ARP 4754A).

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part‑time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long‑term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To "opt in", just select the option during your application submission and our Talent…