Functional Safety Engineer

Location: Haydock, Merseyside

Attendance: Hybrid (2 days a week from site)

Job type: Permanent / Full time

Rate: Competitive plus opportunities to advance within the company

Delkia is a specialist engineering and technology company for safety-related and mission critical systems in highly regulated sectors, including aerospace, clean energy and maritime sectors. Our offer incorporates: engineering design, technical consultancy and systems integration.

We believe that engineering is not just about technology, manufacturing and innovation. It’s about the people behind it. Delkia ensures that its teams are the focus of its business through passion, belief and simply a better way of working, resulting in great outcomes for our customers. We’re also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and invest in future talent through supporting STEM initiatives, apprenticeships, placements and summer interns.

Our Head Office is in Haydock, supported by facilities in Egremont, Cumbria. Alongside these locations, we have a network of skilled staff working across the UK, forming a dynamic and highly capable team.

Come and join a company that values our people and is growing fast.

Overview of the role:

We are seeking a detail-oriented Safety Engineer to lead and manage the end-to-end safety activities on nuclear and defence related projects. You will coordinate across technical, commercial, and operational teams to produce technical documents and provide accurate assessment to highly regulated and mission critical systems. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent project management skills, and the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, client-focused reports.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Conduct safety analyses of engineered capabilities across nuclear and defence environments.
• Production of hazard analysis and safety assessment documentation.
• Maintain hazard / safety assessment logs and produce associated documentation.
• Provision of safety advice to engineers and software developers with respect to software functional design.
• Provision of safety advice to management team and other stakeholders with respect to software / hardware integration.
• Supporting engineers and software developers through the safety process.
• Interaction with and influence of the 'computing solution' developers as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies
• Interaction with and influence of whole product safety management practitioners / wider product team as to safety constraints and prospective management strategies.
• Providing continuous improvement feedback into the safety team.

What you’ll bring:

• Incorporate Engineer or suitable level of experience to achieve this.
• Practitioner level safety engineering experience in Aerospace / Nuclear / Defence domains
• Ability to work at whole product, system, subsystem, component and sub-component (e.g.: hardware/software) levels considering integration and interaction issues between and within these levels
• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders within a complex project
• Comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment (in terms of scope, processes and delivery)
• Self-starting, able to work alone or within a team, providing appropriate levels of leadership as necessary.
• Well versed with safety management processes and common analysis techniques – intrinsic and common cause.
• Experience in Model Based System Engineering and System Engineering workflows.
• Experience with civil standards for development of programmable electronic systems (e.g.: IEC 61508)
• Experience with civil standards for system development in the Aerospace or Nuclear domain (e.g.: ARP4754/ARP4761 or IEC61511)
• Experience with high level UK defence safety management standards (e.g.: Def-Stan 00-055, Def-Stan 00-056) including their relationship to UK safety law – criminal and civil aspects.
• Experience with complex distributed electronic control systems and/or inter-related safety systems within a multi-hazard environment.
• An appreciation of Agile programme management practices

Nice to have:

• Additional certifications or qualifications in project management or a related field.
• CEng would be nice to have.
• Experience with specific industry software and tools.
• Experience with pricing models, risk assessment, and commercial structuring.

Armed Forces Covenant Commitment:

• As an Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Member, we commit to ensuring Armed Forces personnel leaving the service and Armed Forces Veterans will be actively considered alongside other candidates. Please indicate your previous service in your application. This role has been mapped against the RN/Army/RAF career streams and is closely aligned with Junior Officer roles (Lt, Capt or Flt Lt) and Senior NCO ranks (CPO, SSgt and CT/FS).

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Employers pension contributions of 5%
• 23 days holiday, plus 3 discretionary days to cover the Christmas closedown period (plus Bank Holidays)
• Birthday Day Off (in addition to your holiday entitlement)
• Healthcare cash plan – allowing you to reclaim the cost of everyday healthcare
• Volunteering time including 1 day for STEM related activities
• Professional Membership fees
• Free tea, coffee and fruit in the workplace
• Team collaboration and social events including a fully funded Christmas Party
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free onsite parking
• Flexible working
• Training and development
• Excellent company standards
• Company bonus scheme
• Great team spirit

Our Vision:

To be the UK’s leading engineering and technology partner for safety-related and mission-critical systems.

Our Mission:

To enable a safer, more resilient world through the provision of engineering and technological solutions. We take pride in our role as a partner for safety-critical systems, ensuring the protection of people, assets, and missions that matter most.

Our Values:

• Collaboration and teamwork
• Integrity, trust and accountability
• Safety and security
• Client focused
• Positive social value and impact
• Continuous improvement

Our Purpose:

At Delkia we are driven by our purpose to protect lives and critical assets.

Equal opportunities: Delkia is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Please be aware that many roles working for Delkia will be subject to UK national security vetting restrictions. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and satisfy requirements for national security vetting clearance as appropriate.

All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch to discuss.

Note to Agencies: Delkia has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any unsolicited CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Delkia and any terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.