Purpose of Job - As a Graduate Safety Engineer, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support the design, development, and integration of advanced naval systems. This entry-level position is ideal for graduates seeking to develop their technical and problem-solving skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.
Reporting relationships To Safety & Environmental Protection (S&EP) Team Leader
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our successful and growing company in Winfrith, Dorset. ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK together with its subsidiaries, is a technological leader in many sectors and has an excellent reputation. We have unique and unrivalled domain knowledge in weapon handling, mine-hunting, naval weapons and combat systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology while gaining mentorship and training to progress your engineering career in the maritime defence sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the risk to life and safe operation of AEUK systems.
- Ensure compliance with safety legislation and standards.
- Conduct necessary assessment of a system to identify hazards and quantity associated risks.
- Identify proportionate controls to reduce the risk to acceptable levels.
- Demonstrate system design is as safe as reasonably practicable.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement to ensure consensus on safety is achieved.
- Support the verification and validation that controls are suitably implemented.
- Produce and maintain technical document sets, providing robust evidence the system is safe to operate.
- Support investigations into in-service failures as they occur.
Qualifications Required
- Educated to degree or equivalent level in an engineering, or related discipline.
Knowledge You will Develop
- Fundamentals of Engineering: Understanding of safety engineering principles and practices, including hazard identification, risk
- management and interrelationship between different engineering functions.
- Domain Knowledge: Awareness of the maritime defence industry, such as sonar, weapons, or naval systems, is advantageous.
- Tools and Techniques: Familiarity with systems modelling tools (e.g., MATLAB, Simulink, Enterprise Architect) and requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama) is a plus.
- Coding Basics: Awareness of programming languages (e.g., Python, C++) and simulation environments is beneficial.
Personal Skills Required
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to decompose complex problems into manageable tasks and identify practical solutions.
- Attention to Detail: Precision in technical documentation and analysis.
- Holistic Thinking: Ability to expand knowledge into new domain areas, and work across domains and see the bigger picture.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical information clearly and concisely.
- Collaboration: Capacity to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and contribute to shared objectives.
- Time Management: Ability to prioritise tasks and meet project deadlines in a dynamic environment.
Challenges
- To apply strong systems engineering principles in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- The ability to extract key facts from large amounts of information.
- Effective time management within a multi-tasking environment.
- The ability to communicate and influence at all levels in a dynamic organisation.
Behavioural requirements
- Personally very organised and self-motivated; must be able to work with minimal supervision.
- Flexible and adaptive.
- Promote a “can do” attitude.
More information - The successful candidate must be able to achieve full SC (Security Clearance).
Click APPLY NOW to submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are suitable for the post to Recruitment@uk.atlas-elektronik.com by the closing date and state the job title in the subject line.
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all posts from suitably qualified people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Note: Only successful applicants will be contacted.