Systems Safety Specialist

SYSTRA

$80K — $100K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, systems, safety, or related field
  • Experience in systems safety, assurance, or functional safety roles
  • Knowledge of safety lifecycle processes and systems engineering
  • Experience creating safety cases and hazard logs
  • Familiarity with industry standards and regulatory frameworks
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain system safety and assurance plans
  • Perform hazard analyses using techniques like PHA, FHA, and FMEA
  • Identify, classify, and track hazards, ensuring effective mitigation
  • Derive and manage safety requirements, ensuring traceability
  • Support design reviews to embed safety requirements into systems
  • Prepare safety and assurance documentation for reviews
  • Coordinate verification and validation activities for safety requirements
  • Assess design changes and incidents for safety impact
  • Support certification and regulatory submissions
  • Facilitate cross-functional safety workshops and risk reviews
  • Contribute to continuous improvement in safety and assurance processes

Benefits

  • Work in a safety-critical environment
  • Engage with multidisciplinary teams
  • Opportunity for involvement in regulatory submissions
  • Responsibility for impactful safety assurance activities
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
Full Job Description
Context

We are seeking aSystems Safety Specialist (Systems Assurance)to support the development, integration, and assurance of safe, reliable, and compliant systems across the full lifecycle. This role is responsible for identifying hazards, assessing risks, defining safety requirements, and providing independent assurance that systems meet applicable safety, regulatory, and operational standards.

The ideal candidate combines strong systems engineering capability with practical experience in safety assurance, risk management, and compliance within complex, safety-critical environments.

Missions/Main Duties

TheSystems Safety Specialistwill lead and support safety and assurance activities from concept through design, verification, validation, operation, and change management. The role includes conducting hazard identification and risk assessments, developing safety arguments, and ensuring that safety requirements are properly allocated, implemented, and verified.

This person will work closely with engineering, operations, quality, project management, and regulatory stakeholders to embed safety principles into system development and delivery. They will also contribute to assurance planning, audits, reviews, and governance processes to confirm that systems operate within acceptable risk tolerances.

Core responsibilities include:

  • Develop and maintain system safety and assurance plans aligned with project, customer, and regulatory requirements.

  • Perform hazard analyses such as PHA, FHA, FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, bowtie analysis, or similar techniques as appropriate.

  • Identify, classify, and track hazards through to closure, ensuring effective mitigations are defined and implemented.

  • Derive and manage safety requirements and ensure traceability across the system lifecycle.

  • Support system design reviews to ensure safety requirements are embedded in architectures, interfaces, and operational concepts.

  • Prepare safety cases, assurance cases, compliance evidence, and supporting documentation for internal and external review.

  • Coordinate verification and validation activities related to safety requirements and risk controls.

  • Assess design changes, deviations, incidents, and non-conformances for safety impact.

  • Support certification, regulatory submissions, and customer assurance activities where required.

  • Facilitate safety workshops and cross-functional risk reviews with internal and external stakeholders.

  • Contribute to lessons learned, continuous improvement, and the development of safety and assurance processes, methods, and tools.

  • Support Hazard Log details and workshops for C6U and SRS.
Profile/Skills
  • Bachelors degree in engineering, systems, safety, or a related discipline.
  • Experience in systems safety, system assurance, or functional safety roles.
  • Knowledge of safety lifecycle processes and systems engineering principles.
  • Experience developing safety cases, hazard logs, and assurance documentation.
  • Familiarity with applicable industry standards, regulations, and assurance frameworks.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and influence technical decisions.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

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