Senior Safety Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026. Curtiss-Wright scores B on the Alion truth index.
Senior Safety Engineer
As a Senior Safety Engineer, you will provide safety engineering support to business projects. You'll operate as a key member of the project team bringing experience in safety engineering to the team, whilst also supporting bid work by scoping the safety engineering tasks for the proposed work.
Location: Wimborne, UK
Your Challenge:
- Supporting the safety engineering aspects of projects.
- Drafting and estimating the safety engineering aspects of bid work.
- Applying appropriate safety engineering practice on projects.
- Generating and maintaining high quality safety documentation and gaining formal review approval for release.
- Use of systems engineering tools for safety requirements management
- Supporting representations of project safety engineering to the project or customer community.
- Advising or mentoring less-experienced team members, including graduates or apprentices, on safety engineering matters.
- Provide technical leadership in specified areas for the team and the company as a whole.
- Drafting concise and accurate technical reports, requirements specifications as required meeting the specific needs of the deployed equipment.
- Supporting other engineering or related disciplines as required, e.g. design, production or test.
- Contribution to ongoing development and improvement of engineering/business processes.
- Any other relevant duties as and when required.
What You Bring :
- HND/Degree (or equivalent) qualified engineer, preferably in electrical/electronic engineering.
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer with membership (or working towards membership) of a relevant institution would be an advantage.
- Experience of safety and systems engineering or design and in a safety regulated industry.
- Knowledge of safety system design in accordance with IEC 61508 or similar safety standards (IEC 61513, IEC 61226).
- Awareness of systems engineering processes, standards and methodologies (e.g., IEC 15288, UML). Including knowledge of product lifecycle management
- Knowledge of DOORS for requirements management.
Who We Are
Environmental, Social and Governance
Curtiss-Wright Wimborne, a Business Unit of Curtiss-Wright Nuclear, is a global engineering and design manufacture leader with just over six decades of experience designing for heavily regulated markets, such as nuclear, aerospace, oil and gas, and more. We develop sensors and instrumentation and control solutions for harsh environments and mission critical applications when safety and reliability matter. We focus on our customers’ success in every step of our process from sales engagement, quality, delivery, and customer service. Our customers trust us and know our commitment to safety is our top priority.
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