Project Safety Engineer

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

From manufacturing and engineering to cybersecurity and space, we’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries – and working together to build a future we can all trust.

Our Benefits

• ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment
• Fitness Passport Discount – Access to a network of Gyms across AUS as cheap as $14.95 P/W
• Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance)
• Modernised Paid Parental Leave
• Veterans Leave
• Novated Lease options
• Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work
• Personal & professional training development opportunities
• Sonder – Wellbeing & Support Partner

Our Team

From take-off to landing, Thales offers the most complete range of solutions to provide dynamic Air Traffic Services to support today's growing domestic and international travel requirements. Utilising this knowledge and experience Thales Australia will deliver a harmonised Civil/Military Air Traffic Management System (OneSKY) in Australia to Airservices Australia and Defence. 

This will enable a new level of safety and efficiency, while also reducing delays for the travelling public and providing opportunities to improve environmental outcomes. OneSKY will transform Australia’s sky and we are proud to be partners in its delivery.

Your role:

The Project Safety Engineer (PSE), is responsible for performing systems safety engineering activities required to develop a safe solution (mainly a software), product or projects. In this role, you will apply your Safety Engineering skills within an interdisciplinary team covering all aspects of a system lifecycle.

This role will initially support the TopSKY-ATC-One (T1) product.

This position is for an initial 2 year fixed term contract to be based at our office in Melbourne CBD.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Conducting a range of activities that identify and address safety hazards and risks by ensuring compliance to legislations, safety policies and the Thales Solution Safety Management System
• Developing and maintaining safety key artefacts: system safety program plans, safety case reports, hazard logs, risk assessments, preliminary system safety assessments and system safety assessments commensurate with the processes, standards and best practices employed by air traffic management domain including fault tree analysis and GSN
• Work closely with the engineering integrated product teams to identify, derive and manage safety requirements, ensure that they are included in the solution design baseline and that their compliance is demonstrated through verification & validation and developing effective mitigations and controls to hazards, procedure and/or training
• Provide timely safety subject matter expertise and engineering support. This includes participating and/or chairing system safety working groups, safety review boards and other safety committees and workshops as required

On day one you will come with:

• Experience in Systems Safety Engineering process in a safety critical industry such a Defence, Land Domain, Manufacturing, Vehicles, Railway, Aerospace, Nuclear or Oil & Gas
• Demonstrated experience applying industry best practice system safety analysis and operational risk management techniques and methodologies
• Proven track record of successfully leading the execution of system safety programs
• Familiar with management and engineering tools such as DOORS, Polarion, JIRA and FTA tool
• Experienced in top-down (abstract ideation) and bottom-up (detailed implementation) approaches in engineering solutions and can work with colleagues with these views
• Knows the structure of a software and be able to apply safety techniques

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