Job DescriptionThe System Safety Professional will support the Air Force's ICBM weapon system and the Sentinel program. These are long-term sustainment and acquisition programs and are anticipated to remain operational until 2075. The System-level Safety Professional will provide technical expertise in Safety-related efforts and will actively contribute on the Systems Safety team in performance of the day-to-day team responsibilities. You will work with other organizational leadership on priorities, fostering strong relationships, meeting business goals, and so forth. You will also help build teamwork, improve communications, develop/enforce policies, and work with stakeholders (internal and external).
The successful candidate will be energetic, self-motivated, and have the ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment with the desire to make a difference. Knowledge and experience working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Air Force Safety policies and processes and Safety Risk Management Frameworks is required.
The specific responsibilities of System Safety Professional position include and is not limited to the following:
• Serves as Senior System Safety technical advisor/consultant to the System Safety Program Manager (PM), Mission Defense Branch Lead, and the Systems Engineering Division Lead.
• Provides training to personnel for all safety evaluation processes and oversee all activities for programs.
• Evaluate all program documents, resolve all safety issues, and coordinate with system assurance manager to analyze all safety requirements.
• Participate in various safety regulations and recommend modifications to existing design and ensure compliance to all organization requirements and administer all human safety.
• Analyze and perform assessment on all safety hazards and recommend improvements to all human factor engineering processes and ensure optimal integration of safety features on designs and provide required training to same and ensure compliance to all customer requirements.
• Develop integrated system analysis plans.
• Coordinate with Nuclear Surety and Cybersecurity engineering process for all use cases, determine all safety requirements, and prepare required presentation for all safety evaluation meetings.
• Develop and participate in all test activities, ensure compliance to all safety requirements, and evaluate all system engineering documents.
• Supports required tests and monitor all work according to DoD, Air Force, state and federal regulations.
• Develop and implement all safety policies and procedures and coordinate with management staff to analyze and identify all risks and prepare reports for same.
• Evaluate all system safety engineering requirements and coordinate with company engineers to maintain quality of all processes.
• Conducts analysis using System-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security (STPA-Sec) process and tools.
• Fulfills System Safety responsibilities defined in DoD, Air Force, and MIL-STD Instructions.
This position is located at 6008 Wardleigh Rd, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Due to the special-access classified working environment, it is not conducive to full "telework" or remote schedules.
Pursuant to Government contract, this position requires US Citizenship.
This position provides the opportunity to develop and hone communication, customer relationship, and leadership skills while working with a close-knit fun-loving team of other system safety professionals.
This position works with System Safety, Nuclear Surety, Cybersecurity, Program Protection, and various other Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) supporting ICBM weapon systems, subsystems and supporting systems.
Required Skills and EducationUS Citizenship.
Secret security clearance. Able to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
BS/MS Engineering, Computer Science, Software, Mathematics, or Physics. 7 yrs (5 yrs with MS degree) of progressive experience in systems integration and analysis of military hardware and software systems/processes. 2 yrs experience leading system design, integration, analytical and system safety efforts
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Preferred Skills and Education- Top Secret security clearance.
- Experience in ICBMs.
- Experience with MIL-STD-882E.
- Experience with range safety.
- Experience conducting Systems Safety Hazards Analysis.
- Experience with Risk Management.
- System safety professional experience/certified.
- Knowledge/experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and/or requirements derivation using DOORS or equivalent.
