Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.
ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
Join us as a Project Safety Engineer (PSE), where you will be responsible to perform systems safety engineering activities required to develop a safe solution (mainly a software), product or projects. In this role, you will apply your Safety Engineering skills within an interdisciplinary team covering all aspects of a system lifecycle.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Project Safety Engineer, you are accountable for:
As a Project Safety Engineer, you conduct safety engineering activities and produce the required artefacts on time, budget and quality for the allocated project / product.
This includes:
- Conducting a range of activities that identify and address safety hazards and risks by ensuring compliance to legislations, safety policies and the Thales Solution Safety Management System
- Developing and maintaining safety key artefacts: system safety program plans, safety case reports, hazard logs, risk assessments, preliminary system safety assessments and system safety assessments commensurate with the processes, standards and best practices employed by air traffic management domain including fault tree analysis and GSN
- Work closely with the engineering integrated product teams to identify, derive and manage safety requirements, ensure that they are included in the solution design baseline and that their compliance is demonstrated through verification & validation and developing effective mitigations and controls to hazards, procedure and/or training
- Provide timely safety subject matter expertise and engineering support. This includes participating and/or chairing system safety working groups, safety review boards and other safety committees and workshops as required
- Apply Model Based System Engineering tools and modelling methodologies to define system safety functions and requirements as well as managing safety data
- Escalate risks when necessary, provide clear reporting and recommendations
- Work in accordance with Thales processes and practices, and contribute to their improvement
You will also improve the Safety culture within AMS in Singapore by developing, sharing and/or improving safety training material, delivering training as required and pro-active behaviour.
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:
SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Experience in the Systems Safety Engineering process in a safety critical industry such a Defence, Land Domain, Manufacturing, Vehicles, Railway, Aerospace, Nuclear or Oil & Gas
- Demonstrated experience applying industry best practice system safety analysis and operational risk management techniques and methodologies
- Proven track record of successfully leading the execution of system safety programs
- Familiarity with Eurocontrol Safety Assessment Methodology and its system safety engineering processes including core system safety analysis techniques: FHA, PHA, PSSA, SSA, ETA, FTA, HAZOP, FMECA, RAM, etc.
- Experience and understanding of the V-cycle and how/when the safety engineering activities are interfaced with
- Knowledge of international standards of the safety domain: ARP 4761/4754, DO-278A/178C, ED-153
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making abilities, great and positive attitude, ability to learn
- Adapt easily to change to work in an agile system engineering environment to understand a problem and provide optimal solution options in terms of size, scale and complexity
- Able to travel to Melbourne, Australia (a few weeks a year).
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 10 years experience in a similar or adjacent role
- Familiar with management and engineering tools such as DOORS, Polarion, JIRA and FTA tool
- Experienced in top-down (abstract ideation) and bottom-up (detailed implementation) approaches in engineering solutions and can work with colleagues with these views
- Knows the structure of a software and be able to apply safety techniques
- Team player: harmonising, influencing, negotiating, seeking feedback and mentoring / coaching
- Self-driven and highly motivated, passionate about systems safety engineering and continual process improvement to achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders
- Keen to grow product and process knowledge over time, to enhance your capabilities as a System Safety Engineer within the given environment of practice
- Knowledge of design-to-cost approach means and can quickly preform a cost-benefit analysis to different methodologies before executing a system engineering task
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
QUALIFICATIONS
- Engineering or Computer Science degree
- System Safety degree
DESIRABLE
- Understand and application of RAMS techniques such as RBD, life data analysis, MTTF, MTBF, MTTR, FMECA
- Knowledge of transverse engineering disciplines: human factor and cyber-security and their links with safety engineering
- Experience in the development of software products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
- Conduct independent safety assurance activities including auditing
- Experience in the ATM Domain and related standards (ICAO)
- French language knowledge
General / Special Requirements
- Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales key values.
- An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
- An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
- An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
- Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
- Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Occasional international travel may be required
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!
