Principal Safety and Environmental Engineer

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood are currently recruiting a Principal Safety and Environmental Engineer for an opportunity to work in the Marine Division of one of our clients. The client is a leading design consultancy providing naval architecture, marine, system engineering, electrical engineering design and project support services to the marine and Defence markets worldwide. The role will be fully remote but may require occasional site visits. All work must be carried out in the UK and the role will require security clearance. Experience in surface ships, submarine and commerical ship building is preferred but not essential.

The main purpose of the role is to include but not be limited to:

• Provide professional safety and environmental engineering support to surface ship, submarine and commercial projects;
• Provide safety and environmental case input to non-conformances and design changes for specified systems;
• Support other members of Safety Enginering Group (SEG) in developing non-nuclear safety and environmental assessments or cases;
• Plan and control of work to Quality, Time and Budget;
• Provide expertise and support in own engineering specialisation to other members of the safety team;
• Production of safety and environmental cases.

Qualifications

The Principal Safety and Environmental Engineer is required to have an extensive engineering background in a relevant discipline and experience of safety and environmental assessment/management processes that is specifically directed towards systems or product safety and environmental assessment.

This is not a Health & Safety or SHEF type role, it requires an extensive engineering background in a relevant field. Also required:

• Extensive working knowledge of MOD Health Safety and Environmental Protection (HS&EP) Policy and regulations including the Acquisition Safety and Environmental Management Systems (ASEMS) (POSMS & POEMS) and the Defence Safety Authority (DSA) Policy and Defence Domain specific Regulations (particularly the Defence Maritime Regulator (DMR);
• Extensive working knowledge of applicable Defence Standards and Joint Service Publications (JSPs) such as 00-056 (Safety Management Requirements for Defence Systems) and JSP 418 (Management of Environmental Protection in Defence);
• Authoring of Technical Reports;
• Chairmanship and recording of Technical meetings;
• Experience of constructing a safety argument via the Goal Structured Notation, /Claims/Argument/Evidence techniques;
• Experience of facilitating/undertaking Hazard Identification and Assessment exercises using some or all of the following:
• Structured What If Technique (SWIFT)
• Hazard and Operability Studies (HazOpS)
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Event Tree Analysis
• Failure Mode Effect & (Criticality) Analysis (FME(C)A)
• Good knowledge of Naval Engineering in RN ships and/or submarines would be advantageous;
• Experienced in multidisciplinary engineering environment;
• Knowledge of environmental issues & legislation;
• Good presentational, written, analytical and IT skills.
• Good people management skills;
• Good team player but able to plan and work alone;
• Prepared and able to make decisions in own sphere of responsibility.
• Displays flexibility, enthusiasm, drive and commitment;
• Professional in all actions;
• Able to produce outputs to Quality, Time and Budget;
• Good influencing skills and customer focus;
• Committed to ensuring design safety and prepared to challenge output when required;
• Desire to learn new skills in support of role;
• Self-motivated.
• Degree qualified in an engineering discipline with extensive experience in relevant field will be considered;
• Preferably already hold the Defence Maritime Regulator’s (DMR) Ship Safety & Environmental Management Training (SEMT) or Ship Safety Management Office (SSMO) Certification (training will be arranged if required);
• Member of a relevant institution (e.g. IMechE, RINA, IET, SARS etc.) and hold Chartered status

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.