System Safety Assurance Consultant - Forces Leaver

Job Description

Occam Group are looking for UK Armed Forces leavers with a background in engineering to join our team of experienced System Safety Assurance professionals. This is a fantastic opportunity for self-starters to join a growing company that has an excellent reputation for delivery. If you aspire to utilise the skills and experience gained through your service career in a variety of new domains and challenging projects, Occam Group can support your ambition.

Our team are engaged in some of the most complex and prestigious UK engineering programmes, including: novel directed energy weapons, submarine combat systems, nuclear deterrent, unmanned air systems, civil maritime future technologies and beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone capabilities.

Day to day, you will work with clients providing specialist consultancy services and support business development activities.  You will work from our offices, client sites and from home. To best support our clients, we sometimes need to travel; we take a flexible approach to meet both our staff and clients’ needs. Candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting. 

Occam Group is proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant demonstrating our commitment to supporting military leavers, reservists, veterans, and their families. We firmly believe in the benefits that military experience can bring to our business, and we welcome contact from anyone who wishes to continue to build a career in safety assurance. 

• Salary:  £45k – £55k per annum, depending on experience
• Position Type:  Permanent: Full-time or Part-time
• Location:  Office (Bristol/Manchester) / Client Sites / Home Working

Core Responsibilities  

• Delivering Safety Assurance and Independent Safety Audit/Advice services.
• Technical input to projects, tenders and quotations.  
• Taking active steps to ensure customer satisfaction and obtain repeat business. 
• Involvement with business winning activities.

Required Experience  

• Delivering engineering expertise in safety-critical capabilities.
• Knowledge of safety assurance tools and techniques would be desirable, but not essential, e.g. fault tree analysis, bow-tie-analysis, Goal Structuring Notation, HAZOP Study.
• Experience within one or more of the following domains: Defence (covering Air; Land; Sea; Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives; Nuclear.

Required Skills 

• An engineering background, preferably degree qualified, but not essential.
• Strong customer focus, able to easily elicit and understand requirements, build professional relationships, and be trusted to deliver.  
• Articulate and effective communicator, able to clearly present information verbally and within written reports.
• Organised nature, able to work with minimal supervision, meet deadlines and manage changing priorities. 
• An optimistic and driven approach.
• Able to apply core experience and skills to support work in new domains.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to: join.us@occam-group.co.uk