Systems Safety Engineer - EHS - (Experienced or Senior)

Systems Safety Engineer - EHS - (Experienced or Senior)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing has won the US Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) competition and will produce the world’s first sixth generation fighter jet at our facility in Berkeley, MO (St. Louis surrounding area). This program adds to the rich legacy of defense products that includes F-15, F/A-18, T-7, and MQ-25.

The Boeing Test & Evaluation Team (BT&E) is looking for an experienced System Safety Engineer - EHS - that will be responsible for performing safety hazard analyses using risk analysis tools.  These tools will include risk management assessments of complex system designs throughout the life cycle of a product and program.  Focus will be on workplace, product and service safety. This position will support leadership and individual contributors to help them understand their responsibilities of workplace safety and Safety Management System (SMS) requirements and guidelines.  Also required will be the ability to influence and further collaborate with a cross section of program and test capability fields to develop and provide workplace, product and service safety requirements early in the design process and throughout the lifecycle of the program. 

The System Safety Engineer will work with BT&E Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) to develop a plan to implement reporting procedures, notification of incidents to appropriate parties, investigation of any safety Near Miss and injury incidents, advising managers and workers on safety risk management, helping other individual contributors with SMS concerns and issues through Speak Up and Enablon reporting tools.  Lead Safety Action Groups (SAGs) and promote SMS competencies, training and communication of SMS philosophies.

Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Experienced and Senior Level System Safety Engineers - EHS.

Position Responsibilities:

• Apply engineering and management principles, criteria, and techniques to achieve acceptable risk within the constraints of operational effectiveness and suitability, time, and cost throughout all phases of the system life-cycle

• Identifying potential hazards and assessing the likelihood and severity of risks associated with a system

• Review engineering design specifications, test operations, change proposals, product and lab safety systemic risks and hazards

• Analyzing systems and designs to identify vulnerabilities and ensure safety features are integrated

• Conduct effectiveness reviews to verify corrective action were put in place and systems are operating as intended

• Developing and implementing safety plans, procedures, and protocols

• Working knowledge of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), MIL-STD-882 E risk analysis tools

• Work with lab test capabilities to support program test requirements

• Participate in incident investigations and determine root cause/corrective action analyses

• Lead Safety Action Group (SAG) meetings

• Support test preparation and operations including test hazard analysis, risk and identification of mitigations

• Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.

• Resolves cross-functional technical issues

Additional Potential Responsibilities:

• Leverage the Boeing Problem Solving Model (BPSM) and Bowtie risk analysis tools to conduct risk analysis to find root cause or risk of a SMS trigger item

• Support hazard analyses & incident investigations addressing both isolated and systemic root causes

• Practice of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), MIL-STD-882 E risk analysis tools

• Work with customer authorities

• Leverage metrics and data analytics in identifying priority focus areas from a safety risk and mitigation standpoint

• Support integrated Perform to Plan efforts and safety reviews to inform leadership team on gaps, opportunities, and accelerated improvements

• Evaluates customer and /operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces

• Performs various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.

• Performs analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, cer