Systems Safety Engineer

SUMMARY

General Description:

The Systems Safety Engineer will work closely with design engineering to ensure systems meet regulations and to identify, analyze, and assess safety and mission risks to establish Aerospace system, products, or service safety mitigations and control methods.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Conducts system research and analysis to identify potential hazards, risks, and safety concerns.
• Assists Engineering in design and recertification efforts
• Identifies safety issues and conducts root cause analysis and recommends corrective actions.
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to define, validate, and integrate safety into designs and operations work instructions.
• Verifies systems meet defined safety and mission assurance requirements through conducting and supporting tests, analyses, inspections, audits, and simulations.
• Develops safety processes and standardization for fluid and pressure systems certification and design.
• Documents safety analysis, hazard mitigation, validation and verification activities in compliance with relevant customer and regulatory standards.
• Develops and implements System Safety Program Plans
• Assesses safety risks associated with pressure and fluid systems , including Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and ensure tracking of safety requirements.
• Conducts system safety audits
• Performs other Duties as assigned

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

General Education: Bachelor's Degree

College: Bachelor's Degree

Major: Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Safety Engineering or equivalent discipline

Job-Related Experience: Five or more years of related work experience.

• Experience working in ground systems
• Understanding of safety requirements for the design and continual certification of fluid and pressure systems
• Experience in Process Safety Management / Process Hazard Analysis
• Experience with Human Factors

Certifications:

• Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Safety Management Professional (SMP) or similar
• Certification in System Safety Engineering (e.g., CSSP, CSP, or equivalent).

Licenses, etc.: Valid driver's license is necessary when operating a vehicle while on agency business.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Knowledge:

Comprehensive knowledge of fluid and pressure system schematics and comprehensive knowledge of safety requirements for design and continual certification of fluid and pressure systems. Knowledge of ASME and NFPA standards.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess software safety risks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and accuracy while understanding broader technical issues
• Excellent organizational skills such as prioritizing and completing multiple tasks within critical deadlines, as well as verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience delivering briefings to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams
• Proficiency in developing safety documentation, conducting safety audits, and providing recommendations for hazard mitigations.

Abilities:

Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing; work effectively with other agency staff and vendors; manage multiple tasks; consistently meet deadlines

Physical Demands:

The employee is regularly required to sit. use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. Position may travel between sites.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The employee is frequently exposed to risk of radiation and vibration. Work environment involves significant risks with exposure to potentially dangerous or extremely adverse conditions which require a range of safety and other precautions, e.g. fieldwork on launch pads, near high pressure and cryogenic systems, near extremely energetic materials.

The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions. extreme cold (non-weather) and extreme heat (non-weather).

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Must be able to obtain and maintain eligibility for issuance of a NASA credential.

Must be able to pass a pre-employment background check and drug test.