Job Role
The role will cover all aspects of the safety life-cycle, and could include any or all of the following:

• Writing safety plans.
• Chairing HAZOPs.
• Developing hazard logs.
• Developing safety targets and apportioning those targets across a system.
• Identifying and interpreting SILs.
• Developing and authoring safety requirements.
• Performing causal and consequence analysis with, for example FTA, FMEA, event tree analysis, etc.
• Constructing innovative and compelling safety arguments.
• Authoring electronic and paper safety cases.
• Working on independent safety assessment assignments.
• Carrying out Notified Body assessments in the command, control and signalling domain of European rail applications.
• Contributing to technical content, for sales proposals.
• Being an active member of the Praxis safety community, sharing best practice and contributing to Praxis' capabilities in this area.
• Acting as an advocate for Praxis within the national and international safety communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Setting technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Setting direction for Praxis' safety offering consistent with that of Praxis' overall engineering strategy.

Education and training

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline - or significant industrial experience.
• A further degree (eg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Recognised expert in their field.

Experience

• Candidates are likely to have at least ten years working in a relevant discipline or industry sector - either directly within industry, or an academic or consulting environment.
• Relevant sectors are civil and military aerospace, air traffic management, nuclear, mainline and underground rail.
• Relevant disciplines are systems, software, and hardware typically for large-scale or complex engineering endeavours.

Skills

• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory regimes and the national/international standards appropriate to that regime.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of safety engineering or safety management in a complex systems environment, with a likely bias to embedded programmable systems.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focussed and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences.
• An understanding of the technical and commercial issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others' work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Praxis staff, both in Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.
• The ability to mentor and develop others.

Salary & Benefits