Engineer System Safety II/III

Armament Systems Plymouth, MN is currently seeking an Engineer/Principal Engineer Systems Safety to be part of our Hazards Analysis team supporting several locations within Armament Systems, but home location would be the Elk River, MN facility.

Role description & Responsibilities:

Engineer Systems Safety will perform hazards analysis studies for Armament Systems. Processes and products involving energetic, combustible, and flammable ingredients, propellants, and materials. These studies identify risk and establish safeguards to prevent ignition, injury, or damage, and define necessary actions to negate the hazard or reduce risk to acceptable levels. Engineer Systems Safety works closely with Safety, Process, Tooling, and Design engineers and Operations to complete analysis effort.

Job Duties: 

• Performs complex process safety and/or hazards analysis engineering assignments in support of the development, testing, and production of highly hazardous materials.
• Often functions in a consulting role or has HA project leadership role in important design, development, and manufacturing projects.
• Primary role is to apply a physics-based approach to risk identification and mitigation requiring considerable technical experience and ability.
• Prepares/supports Quantity/Distance analyses, concept, design and process hazards analyses, technical analyses in response to contract data item requirements.
• End item safety analyses, safety assessment reports, ground operations and support hazards analyses, engineering change proposals
• Provides technical basis for safety waivers and regulatory interpretations, deviations, and explosives hazard classifications.
• Supports and defends critical review of the analysis effort in all review forums up to and including executive leadership.
• Will develop a working knowledge of MIL-STD 882, DoD 4145.26M, DoD 6055.9, OSHA and NFPA regulations. 

Skills & Qualifications:

Must have strong multitasking and problem-solving abilities. Well-organized, works effectively with little to no supervision, maintains attention to detail and deals effectively with ambiguity. Must have strong communication skills (written and verbal). You must be able to prepare and deliver briefings of technical information, with clarity, to all levels of management and customer personnel.

Please note this position may be filled as a System Safety Engineer (Level 2) or Principal System Safety Engineer (Level 3) depending on the candidate’s education and/or years of experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Qualifications for System Safety Engineer (Level 2)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry plus 2 years of relevant technical experience;
    Or master’s degree in STEM discipline plus 0 years of experience
     
• Qualifications for Principal System Safety Engineer (Level 3)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry plus 5 years of relevant technical experience;
    Or master’s degree in STEM discipline plus 3 years of experience·   
       
• Experience with GFMEA a plus

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