System Safety Engineer, Remote
Gibbs & Cox

Job Info

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Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers' 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

Location: Remote

We are looking for a System Safety Engineer/Manager with a solid technical background who is looking to join a dynamic and growing team that provides technical consulting services to diversified clients including the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, foreign military, commercial maritime and commercial transportation industries. Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills as well as the ability to fully integrate with a multidisciplinary team are required. Responsibilities include:

• Providing system safety program management and engineering support to government clients including integrating all system safety domain areas; environmental, safety, occupational health, and software, into ship design and acquisition activities by reviewing contractor plans, reports, and other products in support of new construction ship design
• Establishing system safety requirements, ensuring compliance to those requirements, identifying hazards and acceptable risk resolution, and safety testing/verification.
• Providing hands-on technical system safety support by performing system safety reviews of designs, prototypes and as-built production systems; and perform the appropriate hazard analyses to ensure that risk are mitigated to an acceptable level and mitigation measures are effectively incorporated into system designs.
• Conducting system safety research and studies including the development of plans, pilot testing, data collection and analysis and reporting.
• Participating in multidisciplinary engineering and system safety working groups and working independently to identify and resolve system safety issues and ensure customer needs are met.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in safety, system safety, systems engineering, environmental science or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 10+ years' hands-on experience in applying system safety, systems engineering or other related discipline to the design and evaluation of complex systems.
• Familiarity with the DOD/DON acquisitions process and experience in supporting large programs and/or experience with US Navy, US Coast Guard and other DOD and commercial maritime surface ships.
• NAVSEA certified Principal for Safety (PFS) or meeting the PFS certification requirements or ability to meet the certification requirement and obtain certification within two months of hire.
• Ability to lead a Navy ship acquisition program's system safety effort, aid the programmatic and technical authority to implement DoD, SECNAV, OPNAV, and NAVSEA system safety requirements and policy throughout the program's lifecycle, and manage the execution of the program's system safety program.
• Provide system safety input to engineering planning documents, system requirements, statements of work/statements of objectives, and requests for proposals.
• Review contractor delivered safety products and provide feedback to senior management on adequacy, gaps, and issues.
• Experience in applying MIL-STD-882E and performing the 'tasks' and hazard analysis outlined in the standard to the design of systems; specification development and identification of safety critical items/functions; and experience with hazard analysis techniques (FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, etc.).
• Experience in developing and managing hazard management/tracking systems.
• Experience in providing support at Design Reviews, System Safety Working Groups (SSWGs), etc.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills, and a background in working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in standard MS Office suite.
• Comfortable, confident self-starter with a passion for system safety.
• US Citizenship and an Active US Secret Clearance or the ability to obtain a US Secret Clearance

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of theoretical and practical engineering principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of Navy environmental, safety and health laws, regulations, policies, and guidance.
• Knowledge of shipboard hazardous systems, materials, and environments.
• Experience with hazard and risk identification, assessment and management software packages.
• Experience with development of complex, mission critical or safety-critical software systems

Security Requirements
Applicant will be subject to a security investigation and must meet the eligibility requirements to obtain and maintain a security clearance issued by the US Government. In addition to the security clearance, this position may require an additional background screening for base access.

Gibbs & Cox is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The VEVRAA, VEVRAA | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov), covers veterans.

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