Safety & Reliability Engineer - Senior / Technical Specialist

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Ultra Precision Control Systems (PCS) are looking for a Safety and Reliability engineer capable of influencing the design and development of mechanical or electronic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs).Ultra Precision Control Systems (PCS) are looking for a Safety and Reliability Engineer - Senior to Technical Specialist level - capable of influencing the design and development of mechanical or electronic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs).

Location: Cheltenham, however remote working can be considered

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide the business with technical oversight of its safety, reliability and supportability approach
• Generation of typical LRU Safety and Reliability artefacts (Safety Argumentation, Safety Case, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Analysis to generate MTBF).
• Liaise with customers, internal and external as needed.

Security Clearance:

Due to the nature of the work carried out at Ultra, all applicants must be eligible for SC Clearance.

Expectations, Background and Understanding:

PCS are looking for a Safety and Reliability engineer capable of influencing the design and development of mechanical or electronic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs).

As this role covers a wide range of experience the successful candidate will have a good foundation in LRU Safety and Reliability engineering who is passionate about furthering their learning and development within the Safety and Reliability discipline.

With this in mind experience in some of the following areas would be advantageous, but not mandatory to be considered for this role.

• Experience with the following Defence standards: Def Stan 00-56, 00-40, 00-45, 00-45, MIL-STD 1629, MIL-HDB 217F
• Experience with the following Aerospace standards: ARP4761, ARP4754, CS25 and ABD100
• Capability to review electronic design and development within a Safety and Reliability context.
• Understanding and experience of data capture in terms of Technical Publications, Training, Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) and WLC/LCC
• Awareness of supportability aspects of a programme.

Personal Behaviours:

The successful candidate would be expected to demonstrate the following behaviours and skills:

• Pro-active and self-motivated with good problem solving experience.
• Learns quickly, willing to think “outside the box” using rigorous logic and methods to solve complex problems
• Helpful and assistive approach to resolution of technical challenges and understands the need to change where necessary and adjusts accordingly
• Positive attitude with ability to work as part of a team or alone with little supervision or direction
• Good communication skills (presentation, written and verbal)

Benefits:

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.

• Flexible working within core working hours
• 25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell 5 days plus bank holidays.
• 4 times your annual salary in life assurance
• Flexible benefits package (benefits such as, new car scheme, retail vouchers, gym discounts, employee share scheme, health screening and more!)
• Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years’ service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years’ service + up to 7.5% employer contributions.
• Sports and Social club
• Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events

You couldn’t be joining the team and Ultra at a more exciting time. Therefore if this sounds of interest, please follow the application process.

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.