Safety Engineer (Junior to Senior)

• Junior Level - £32,000 - £45,000
• Mid Level - £42,000 - £60,000
• Senior - £57,000 - £70,000

Key areas of responsibility

• Deliver safety engineering activities across projects, contributing to planning and execution using appropriate tools (e.g. JIRA, JAMA). 
• Support or lead safety work packages, ensuring activities are delivered to time, cost and quality expectations.
• Apply recognised safety analysis techniques such as FMEA, HAZOP and BowTie.
• Contribute to or define safety strategy and methodology, including identification of deliverables and milestones.
• Support system design activities, including architectural evaluations, trade studies and technical feasibility analysis.
• Produce and maintain safety documentation, ensuring it is clear, consistent and meets customer requirements.
• Develop safety arguments and artefacts, including hazard logs, legislation compliance assessments, and safety case reports.
• Engage with internal teams, building effective working relationships.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Rowden's safety engineering practices and processes.
• Present work and progress at project reviews (with increasing responsibility at higher grades) 

• Lead safety strategy and delivery across projects or programmes.
• Provide technical leadership and domain expertise.
• Manage stakeholders and customer interfaces.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers.
• Shape and improve organisational safety capability.

Key skills, experience and behaviours

• An understanding of systems engineering and safety engineering principles.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work within cross-functional teams.

• Experience supporting safety activities such as hazard identification and analysis.
• Familiarity with safety lifecycles and common techniques (e.g. FMEA, HAZOP).
• Experience contributing to safety documentation and requirements.
• An understanding of relevant standards, regulations, or engineering environments.

• Proven experience leading safety engineering activities across the lifecycle.
• Strong capability in safety requirements elicitation, including derived requirements.
• Deep knowledge of safety analysis techniques and when to apply them.
• Experience defining safety strategy and influencing system design.
• Ability to manage work packages, priorities, and dependencies.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.
• Confidence engaging with customers and presenting at reviews.
• Knowledge of Government engineering and procurement environments.

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