• Location: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
• Type: Contract
• Job #85117

Our DoD/Aerospace client is looking to fill a Sr Advanced Safety Systems Engineer position that just opened in Canonsburg, PA. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the identification, classification, and mitigation of safety hazards as part of the overall Systems Engineering (SE) process. To be considered, you will have a Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years of job-related experience.

Location: Canonsburg, PA
Position: Sr Advanced Safety Systems Engineer
Contract: 24 months or longer
Pay: $82.14/hour (rate is depending on overall experience)

ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES:
As a Senior Advanced Safety Systems Engineer for the Torpedo Systems Group, you will be responsible for the identification, classification, and mitigation of safety hazards as part of the overall Systems Engineering (SE) process. This includes requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of system, subsystem or system elements with little or no supervision. Additionally, your focus will be on personnel safety of those operating the system. You will work with Program Management, technical leadership and the customer to make critical decisions on architecture, design, and technology choices as it pertains to safety significant solutioning.

We encourage you to apply if you have any of these preferred skills or experiences: 

• Demonstrated strong strategic and architectural vision.
• Proven background designing and maintaining systems with safety significant requirements.
• Excellent problem-solving and system-thinking abilities.
• Demonstrated leadership skills on complex programs with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, push technological boundaries, lead complex projects, and mentor teams.
• Demonstrated technical excellence in systems engineering.  You are viewed as a technical lead on safety across the Torpedo business.
• Demonstrated use and understanding of systems engineering strategies, principles, and measures.
• Ability to present test strategies, plans, and results to internal and external customers and negotiate direction.

The Senior Safety Systems Engineer role will also include the following adjunct responsibilities:

• Support the set-up, configuration, and documentation of hardware and software systems under test, including loading software onto multiple devices.
• Support design, development, and implementation of cost-effective procedures for testing and troubleshooting of components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and systems.
• Support development of test plans, test procedures, requirements traceability, test reports, test flow, and test case design and implementation
• Document testing issues and failures and perform analysis of test results.
• Support formal systems acceptance testing activities.

      
Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field.
• Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master’s degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
• Agile experience preferred.

What sets you apart: 

• Experience in the adoption of system safety practices as defined by MIL-STD-882E, JSSSEH, AOP-52, JOTP-51, MIL-HDBK-2155, T9070-AL-DPC-020/077-2 standards and handbooks.
• Technical credibility; demonstrated through past experiences.
• Experience in preparation of cost and schedule estimates for design tasks.
• Demonstrated system, hardware, and software integration experience.
• Demonstrated technical excellence in engineering solutions to DoD customer requirements.
• Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation and the ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions.
• Exquisite brokering skills, regularly achieving consensus among stakeholders both internal and external.
• Collaborating effectively with others; along with building teams that excel through the client values.

About our client:
Our client is a mission critical DOD – Aerospace defense contractor developing solutions that will lead, serve, and protect our country.  Our client develops strategic systems for defense, civil government, intelligence and cyber end users on an international basis.

About APR:
Since 1980 APR Consulting, Inc. has provided professional recruiting and contingent workforce solutions to a diverse mix of clients, industries, and skill sets nationwide.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! If you feel your experience is a match for this position, please apply today and join our team. We look forward to working with you!

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