Duties include, but not limited to:
- Lead System Safety Program activities providing senior technical guidance on hazard analysis, risk assessment, and system safety requirements.
- Oversee the development, review, and validation of system safety artifacts (e.g., SSHA, SAR, O&SHA, hazard logs, risk-tracking documentation).
- Perform high-complexity evaluations of OEM safety assessments, identifying analytical errors, validating probability models, and ensuring risks are accurately characterized-mirroring demonstrated duties such as detecting flawed OEM Risk Reduction Safety Assessments and correcting probability-based risk rankings.
- Deliver senior-level recommendations that support Air Force operational approvals, safety-policy decisions, and risk-acceptance processes.
- Provide expert safety oversight for developmental and operational test events, ensuring ground tests, flight tests, interoperability tests, and reliability tests incorporate correct safety constraints and mitigations.
- Review T&E plans, procedures, and results for safety impacts and ensure alignment with program safety objectives and Air Force standards.
- Fulfill PWS-directed security requirements, including classified-material handling, SCI product management, and vault-access operations-as reflected in documented system-safety roles.
- Maintain strict compliance with PWS security and information-protection requirements (classified product tracking, SCI event support, and secure-facility procedures).
- Advise program leadership on safety risks and requirements across technology maturation, design reviews, test readiness, fielding decisions, sustainment activities, and configuration changes.
- Represent the program office in high-visibility technical reviews, safety boards, and briefings to senior stakeholders.
- Partner with engineering, T&E organizations, configuration management, OEM partners, logistics, cybersecurity, reliability engineering, and operational units to ensure safety considerations are embedded throughout the acquisition process.
- Guide and mentor junior engineers in system-safety methodology, Air Force policy, and acquisition best practices.
Minimum Required QualificationsClearance: Secret w/ SCI eligibility
Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor of Science in relevant discipline and 5 years of relevant experience OR Master of Science in relevant discipline and 3 years of relevant experience
Technical Skills- Ability to define, plan, implement, and manage comprehensive system safety programs.
- Expertise in system safety engineering methods for electronic, electro-mechanical, and mechanical armament systems.
- Knowledge of guidance and control systems, weapons fuzing, suspension and release equipment, and associated test equipment.
Strong understanding of design requirements, hazard identification, and system safety implications. - Ability to interpret technical requirements, specifications, and standards related to system safety, testing, operations, and logistics.
- Experience supporting test, flight, and operational readiness activities.
- Proficiency conducting or reviewing system safety analyses and supporting design trade-off decisions.
- Ability to monitor and evaluate safety-critical configuration changes.
- In-depth knowledge of DoD munitions safety regulations and approval processes (e.g., USAF Nonnuclear Munitions Safety Board, USN Weapon Systems Explosive Safety Review Board).
- Familiarity with applicable standards such as MIL-STD-1316.
- Knowledge of AFI 63-104 Aircraft Stores Compatibility Certification requirements.
- Experience developing and interpreting systems-safety-related acquisition documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans, System Safety Analyses, PESHE, and Life Cycle Sustainment Plans.
Interpersonal Skills- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Effective collaboration in multidisciplinary IPT environments
- Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous technical problems
- Professional judgment and decision-making in support of senior leadership
Additional InformationLocation: On-site, Eglin AFB, FL
Travel: 10%
