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Job Title: Scientist, System Safety Engineer

Job Code: 46969

Job Location: Waco, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Scientist Safety Engineers assure that systems provide acceptable levels of safety and that critical systems perform as needed even when components fail. Identify and manage risk to eliminate or reduce it to acceptable levels. Risk is the combination of the probability of failure and the severity resulting from the failure. Responsibilities additionally include technical management of system safety and providing direction, guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.

Essential Functions:

Must possess the ability to establish and execute a MIL-STD-882 safety program that concludes with a comprehensive safety assessment

Must possess the ability to understand the concepts of preliminary and system hazard analysis, hazard logs, fault tree analyses, environmental assessment and management, risk assessments and mitigation and occupational health hazard assessments

Interpret Requests for Proposal and prepare effective responses

Must possess strong computer skills (Microsoft Office programs)

Ability to translate system requirements into functional requirements

Ability to interpret technical drawings

Able to work independently or in a team

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree with a minimum of 12 years relevant experience or a Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

US military/civilian aviation maintenance or pilot experience

Reliability and maintainability modeling skills

Human Factors modeling and simulation experience

Working knowledge of Releyence software

Working knowledge of Earned Value Management System

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