Job description for Safety Engineer

Are you ready to make a difference in the field of Safety Engineering? In this exciting role you will work alongside a team of talented engineers within the technical discipline of Safety Engineering.

As a Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for providing expert advice and guidance to support the delivery of Acquisition Safety policy and solutions for simple equipment. Your role will involve managing project safety risks throughout the lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of safe and suitable equipment, systems, and services to Front Line Commands.

You will be given the opportunity to specialise in key areas such as system safety policy and governance, system safety management, and system safety assurance and audit. These specialisms are critical to ensuring the highest standards of safety and reliability in the equipment and systems we deliver.

You may have the opportunity to travel to various UK locations, including visiting suppliers’ sites. If you are passionate about safety, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are eager to contribute to vital projects, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

We champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage the generation of technical safety requirements and documentation for sub-systems, considering the in-service support and associated costs. This includes specifying safety-related systems architectures up to the highest safety integrity levels.
• Supports the development and management of effective Safety Management Systems. Identifies and analyses hazards and contributes to the identification and evaluation of risk reduction measures, ensuring that these are adequately documented and managed.
• Working in a highly regulated area, differentiate and comply with relevant safety legislation, regulation, policy, processes, and standards to deliver technical documentation for a sub-system. This includes the essential relation to quality, safety, security, and sustainability, of the sub-system, and the interoperability with other sub-systems.
• Acts upon identified risk (such as safety, environment, support, financial) and applies the principles of risk escalation and risk transfer.
• Participate and scrutinise the system’s safety: test, verification, validation, and evaluation process.
• Support technical assurance activities within the limit of your technical discipline.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of policy and process to satisfy the DE&S corporate standards for Acquisition Safety Management.

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you’ll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Hold a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics based qualification at RQF Level 4
• Have experience of providing technical advice and delivery of successful safety systems/safety acquisition/ engineering outcomes
• Have technical safety systems/safety acquisition/ engineering experience in in a variety of contexts
• With a relevant Professional body/institution related to your discipline, be professionally registered as either: Engineering Technician (EngTech) or Registered Science Technician (RSciTech). Alternatively, if professionalisation registration is not held, you must hold a minimum RQF Level 6 in a Science, Technology or Engineering based discipline.

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Core Behaviour 1: Communicating and Influencing
• Core Behaviour 2: Making Effective Decisions
• Technical Competence 1: Suitable Systems and Systems Thinking – Supervised Practitioner
• Technical Competence 2: Safety Management – Supervised Practitioner

 Offered Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Market-leading average employer pension contribution of 28.97%
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded qualifications
• Support for progression
• Huge range of discounts
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

Improving innovation and enriching our culture, diversity of thought is vital to our success. So whether you’re looking for a new opportunity, a next step, or a helping hand as you return from a career break, bring your experiences and help deliver for the defence of tomorrow. Here you’ll find a supportive, family-friendly organisation to be a part of – and if you need any assistance with your application, just let us know.

Further Information

• Civil Service Recruitment Principles: Recruitment Principles – Civil Service Commission
• Candidate Information Pack: https://bit.ly/DES-Candidate-Information-Pack
• Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/DES-Terms-and-Conditions
• Civil Service Code: The Code – Civil Service Commission

Any personal data that you provide during the Recruitment process will be treated in accordance with the MOD Privacy Notice which can be accessed here.

Please note as a Disability Confident Leader we want to ensure you receive any reasonable adjustments that you need throughout the recruitment process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, you can let us know on your online application under the section ‘Please indicate and give details of any reasonable adjustments you may require during the recruitment process.’

Selection process details

Your application will go through the following stages of assessment:

1. Pre-sift – We will check that you meet any essential or eligibility criteria that are listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. On your CV, please clearly show how you meet the essential criteria.
2. Sift – Your CV will be assessed against the following categories, using a simple numerical scoring system: Key Achievements; Relevant Experience; Applied Knowledge and Skills. Please follow our guidance on CV writing for best chance of success.
3. Interview – If you’re invited to interview, you’ll be assessed against the Sift categories (CV Review) listed above, as well as the Technical Competences and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. 

Please Note: In the event of a tied score at interview, the Order of Merit will be distinguished based on the relative importance of the assessed competencies as per the hierarchy below:

• 1st: Core Behaviour 1
• 2nd: Core Behaviour 1
• 3rd: Technical Competencies
• 4th: CV Review

In the event of a further tie using the method above, we reserve the right to utilise an additional assessment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance you should contact department via email: DESHR-WSC-PMOCOMPLAINTS@mod.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Recruitment Complaints – Civil Service Commission