Associate Lab Test Systems Safety Engineer

Associate Lab Test Systems Safety Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Test and Evaluation (BT&E) Lab Test is seeking an Associate Lab Test System Safety Engineer who will lead exciting system safety activities of complex advanced aerospace programs in Berkeley, MO.

The ideal candidate will perform safety risk management assessments of complex system designs throughout the life cycle of a product and program.   This includes hazard identification, risk assessment, safety requirements development, mitigation verification, and compliance with applicable regulatory and company safety standards.

This position supports senior leadership and individual contributors to help them understand and apply their daily responsibilities within Boeing’s Safety Management System (SMS).  Focus will be on product and “test” service safety in highly complex and dynamic lab test environments including Structures, Electromagnetic, Polysonic Wind tunnel, Metrology, Environmental and Thermodynamics testing.

This role requires; a systems thinking approach to mitigate risks along with a keen awareness and understanding of test hazards, the ability to work collaboratively across a broad section of program and test capabilities to support the test capabilities statement of work and the development of product and “test” service safety requirements in the design process and throughout BT&E’s Product Test Life Cycle (PTLC) and the lifecycle of a program. The selected candid will lead Safety Action Groups (SAGs), promote a positive safety culture, and actively apply elements associated with all four SMS pillars.

Position Responsibilities Include:

• Conducts system research and analysis to identify potential or investigate reported in-service fleet hazards, risks, and safety concerns and quantifies impact

• Identifies safety and mission assurance issue systemic root causes and recommends corrective actions using industry best practices

• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to define, validate, and integrate safety, mission success, and airworthiness requirements; incorporates into designs, operations, and procedures

• Performs or reviews tests, analyses, inspections, audits, and simulations to verify system meets defined safety and mission assurance requirements

• Creates and maintains aerospace safety and mission assurance tools and processes

• Documents safety analysis, hazard mitigation, validation and verification activities in compliance with relevant customer and regulatory safety standard

• Develops and maintains safety and corrective action plans

• Assists with demonstrating safety hazard risk mitigations and control methods to the customer and regulators

• Ensures mission success through execution of Mission Assurance activities throughout the program lifecycle

• Contributes to establishing global safety advocacy strategies, training, tools, and methods

 Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship

• This position requires ability to obtain program access, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship only

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

• Experience working with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams

• Experience working with Test Readiness Reviews, Design Reviews and/or Technical Working Groups

• Experience creating technical information to include in presentations

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)

• 1+ years of experience in systems safety engineering   

• 1+ years of experience with system safety analysis

• Experience with product safety or quality management experience, ideally with safety management systems, safety risk management processes and leading hazard analyses for novel systems

• Environmental Health Safety (EHS) background and experience

• Experience working with safety analyses such as Risk Assessments, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault-tree Analysis (FTA), etc.

• Experience in formal technical pres