Senior Safety Engineer

Job Description

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The Boeing Safety, Security, and Airworthiness (SS&A) organization is looking for a Senior (Level 4 or Level
5)
Airplane Safety Engineer to join their Airplane Safety Team within Enterprise Safety Mission Assurance in Everett, WA. Selected candidates have the opportunity to support commercial development programs or commercial in production programs.

The Airplane Safety Engineer's responsibilities will include conducting thorough safety analyses at the airplane level across various engineering disciplines. This role entails leading the intricate integration of airplane systems, human factors, and safety assessments, all while considering the operational context of the aircraft. Attention to detail and a keen engineering mindset are essential as our safety deliverables play a critical role in ensuring airplane compliance.

Our team fosters strong partnerships with customers and program leaders across diverse engineering disciplines. We excel in systems-oriented thinking, effective communication, and possess a deep dedication for product safety. Engaged throughout every stage of product design and certification, we maintain a steadfast focus on regulatory compliance, design safety, and product integrity.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong system-level design background and experience integrating across engineering disciplines. The role requires the capability to initiate and effectively lead cross-functional teams and projects. Taking ownership of work tasks is crucial, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and timely delivery of results are consistently achieved.

Primary responsibilities:

• Leads system research and analysis to identify potential or investigate reported in-service fleet hazards, risks, and safety concerns and quantifies impact
• Leads identifying safety and mission assurance issue systemic root causes and recommends corrective actions using industry best practices
• Leads collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to define, validate, and integrate safety, mission success, and airworthiness requirements; incorporates into designs, operations, and procedures
• Leads, influences or reviews tests, analyses, inspections, audits, and simulations to verify system meets defined safety and mission assurance requirements
• Leads creation of aerospace safety and mission assurance tools and processes
• Leads documentation of complex safety analysis, hazard mitigation, validation and verification activities in compliance with relevant customer and regulatory safety standards
• Develops safety plan strategies and coordinates safety and corrective action plans with programs
• Demonstrates safety hazard risk mitigations and control methods to the customer and regulators
• Leads ensuring mission success through execution of Mission Assurance activities throughout the program lifecycle
• Establishes global safety advocacy strategies, training, tools, and methods.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Everett, WA.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• Level 4: 9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level 5: 14+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 9+ years of engineering experience
• 9+ years of experience extracting and compiling data from multiple sources
• 9+ years of experience driving problem solving, communicating with multiple levels of executive leadership, managing and responding to defect metric data trends and predictive indicators

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):

• 3+ years of experience performing system safety analysis and/or studies
• 3+ years of experience with commercial airplane certification including support to regulator-facing forums
• 3+ years of working knowledge of Functional Hazard Analyses (FHA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Particular Risk Assessment (PRA) and Fault Trees Analysis (FTA) and/or System Safety Assessments (SSA)
• 3+ years of experience developing/applying aviation related system safety analysis methods such as System Safety Risk Assessments, Fault Tree Analysis, Functional Hazard Assessment
• Operational experience and/or Pilot's license
• Experience solving complex, ambiguous engineering problems within an aerospace design environment
• Aerospace industry standards, working group, or industry committee experience (e.g. SAE S-18, Flight Test Harmonization Working Group, etc.)

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