Principal Safety Engineer

Job Details

• Date Posted:
• Country: United States of America
• Location: US-AL-HUNTSVILLE-315 ~ 315 Bob Heath Dr ~ BOB HEATH
• Position Role Type: Onsite
• U.S. Citizenship: Required. Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret
• Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

Role Overview

As a Principal System Safety Engineer, you will be accountable for the establishment and execution of major safety programs. The Safety Lead is a technical expert in missile safety and a project manager who establishes and monitors safety program execution, leads program safety teams, and interfaces with program & functional leadership. This requires advanced application of MIL-STD 882E for System Safety (hardware, software, firmware, and personnel) for DoD Missile systems.

What You Will Do

• Practical application of project management skills
  • Create/update the strategy for the program to meet all its milestones with system safety features integrated into the product in compliance with contract and awarded funding.
  • Create a schedule and integrate safety tasks and activities into program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
  • Plan/manage the safety program effort within the Program IMS.
  • Understand the safety budget and tasking through close coordination with the responsible CAM / IPTL / product owner, including EACs.
  • Mentor junior safety engineers.
  • Remove barriers impacting team members.
• Actively engage in engineering review boards and configuration control boards to stay on top of design changes, and assess impacts to the established safety program.
• Establish ongoing feedback loop with functional and program management.
• Lead and coordinate System Safety Working Group(s) between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.
• Escalate risks to the appropriate level and follow through on corrective actions.
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications and military standards, to recommend compliance strategies to program leadership: Chief Engineer, Program Manager, Integrated Product Team Lead, etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Environmental Safety, & Health, Human Systems Interfaces, Test Engineering.
• Manage safety related interactions with suppliers and/or subcontractors.
• Innovate better safety solutions.
• Identify best practices to improve overall safety culture at Raytheon.
• Understand and shape system safety/Human System Interfaces postures across the lifecycle (design, integration / test, flight test, production, field, returns).

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience developing and implementing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses, involving management (task series 100), analysis (task series 200), evaluation (task series 300), and verification (task series 400). This includes hardware and software safety related tasks.
• Experience with presentation skills to brief safety status to safety approval authority at technical reviews, safety review boards, and others as part of the safety approval process.
• Experience managing a safety program.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders across a range of engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• An active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance.
• Experience with briefing at the military safety review board.

What We Offer

• Values: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• Relocation Eligible.

Salary & Benefits

Salary range: $107,500 - $204,500 USD.

Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits depend on the business unit and collective bargaining agreements.

Eligible for annual short‑term and/or long‑term incentive compensation programs based on level and coverage under collective bargaining agreements. Payments are not guaranteed and depend on individual, business unit, and company performance.

This is a U.S.‑based role. For residents in U.S. territories, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

Application window approximately 40 days from posting, subject to change.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.