System Safety Engineer

Gibbs & Cox Australia (GCA) provides world-leading naval and marine engineering expertise for Australia's maritime enterprise. Our vision is a vibrant, sustainable, sovereign Australian shipbuilding, design and maritime enterprise.GCA is a subsidiary of Leidos Gibbs & Cox, an international leader in naval ship design, providing naval engineering and design services on a range of major combatant and surface autonomy programs. Gibbs & Cox has a proud history of excellence, serving naval, government, commercial, and private marine clients since 1929. GCA leverages support from Gibbs & Cox's international network of expertise to offer world's best practice in naval ship design and engineering.In Australia, we operate a select, highly skilled, internationally diverse engineering team, providing engineering and design advisory services to Australia's naval programs, and maritime autonomy system development. Our team holds expertise across naval architecture, marine engineering, systems engineering, integrated logistics support, engineering consulting and acquisition program management.Job Description

We are an innovative and experienced multi-disciplinary team, passionate about engineering in the maritime sector, and Australian sovereign capability. We offer a dynamic, flexible work environment. We value diversity and encourage applicants to bring their unique skills and capabilities to our growing team.Our new opportunities are focused on a new project delivering maritime autonomy technology and capabilities with tight timeframes and a dynamic engineering environment. We are seeking candidates who ideally can demonstrate a strong operational engineering skill set as well as a design background with a focus on design for manufacture. Creativity, flexibility and positivity through challenges are characteristics we are seeking in our team.The position will include the following responsibilities:Risk Assessment: Conducting thorough risk assessments of maritime systems and subsystems to identify potential hazards, risks, and safety concerns. This involves analyzing various failure modes and their potential consequences.Safety Analysis: Performing safety analyses such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Hazard Analysis to assess system safety and identify safety-critical components or processesSafety Requirements Management: Developing and managing safety requirements for maritime systems. This involves translating safety goals and objectives into specific requirements and ensuring they are properly implemented and verified by the engineering and test programs.Safety Verification and Validation: Planning and executing test activities to ensure that safety requirements are met and that the system operates safely under various operating conditions and scenarios.Safety Documentation: Generating safety documentation, including Safety Cases, Hazard Logs, Safety Assessment Reports, and Safety Plans, to demonstrate compliance with safety standards and regulations and provide evidence of safety assurance.Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring process and product compliance with relevant maritime safety regulations, standards, and guidelines.Safety Culture Promotion: Promoting a strong safety culture within the organisation by raising awareness of safety issues, providing safety training and education, and embedding design for safety as a primary goal within the engineering and test program teams. Wider safety culture advocacy such as encouraging the reporting of safety-related incidents and near-misses.Safety Management System (SMS) Development: Adapting and aligning current safety management arrangements with the specific needs of maritime operations, including policies, procedures, and processes for managing safety risks effectively, especially during the test program.Qualifications

This is a multi-faceted developmental project with a significant physical test program. This requires the right safety mindset in system development and strong attention to test safety. Our ideal candidate has safety experience in both technical and operational contexts.Critical AttributesCollaborative – able to quickly establish productive and positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders who have different approaches, interests and styles. Ability to work closely with engineers, designers, operators, and other stakeholders to integrate safety considerations throughout the design, development, and operation of maritime systems.Strong communicator – ability to engage with stakeholders and explain complex issues concisely. Clear and accurate writer. Able to advocate for safety-related issues and influence cultural growth in a new multi-participant project team. Able to articulate safety matters to stakeholders at all levels.Accountable – keeps commitments, adapts to challenges to maintain progress, openly addresses errors and shortfallsPositive Outlook – A positive, solution-orientated attitude, supportive of other team members and stakeholders, criticism is constructive and builds the work and the team forwardRisk Management – Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in design and operations, including a keen awareness of potential hazards and their consequences.Analytical and Problem-Solving Abilities – Strong analytical skills to conduct safety analyses, evaluate complex systems, and identify safety-critical components or processes. Aptitude for problem-solving and troubleshooting to quickly address safety-related issues and implement effective solutions.Adaptability – Able to adapt to evolving safety requirements, technological advancements, and changing operational conditions in a dynamic program environmentRegulatory Knowledge – Familiarity with maritime safety regulations, standards, and guidelines is an advantageTest & Evaluation Experience – Experience in a complex system test environment is an advantageExperience managing technical and/or operational safety in a marine or military operational environment is an advantageClear understanding of systems engineering process - from requirements analysis, specification writing, through to system and sub-system level design/interface descriptionProfessional Engineering credentials, for example, MIEAust, MRINA, Chartered EngineerAdditional Information

Location: we operate a nationally-distributed team. The project is centred around our Newcastle, Canberra and East Melbourne teams / locations. All east-coast mainland locations will be considered, but a moderate amount of domestic travel should be expected as part of the role.Employment type: Permanent full time, with flexible work arrangements available.The successful applicant will be required to hold a valid NV1 security clearance or have the ability to obtain and maintain a valid security clearance as well as other mandatory background checks including a National Police check.

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