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System Safety Manager

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StageDirectory listedStandardsMIL-STD-882IndustryAerospace & defenseSeniorityLead / ManagerRegionGermanyWork modeRemoteSource year2026Role familySafety leadershipSegmentDefense spaceEmploymentContractEmployerEmployer profileLanguagesEnglish · German
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Responsibilities

As (System Safety), you will lead the system-safety domain across our platforms. You will develop and maintain the System Safety Programme Plan (SSPP) and coordinate hazard identification, preliminary hazard analysis (PHA), risk assessment and system-level safety architecture. You will ensure safety requirements trace cleanly to system functions, and lead system-wide safety activities that identify, assess and mitigate weapon-specific safety requirements. Your work integrates every weapon safety demand into the system safety lifecycle and keeps our systems compliant with applicable regulations. You make sure the technology that protects our democracies is safe by design, and safe in the field.

  • Develop and maintain the System Safety Programme Plan (SSPP) as the authoritative reference for all system-safety activities
  • Coordinate hazard identification, preliminary hazard analysis (PHA) and risk assessment across the system safety lifecycle
  • Define and govern system-level safety architecture, ensuring full traceability of safety requirements to system functions
  • Aide the process of getting newly developed systems into service by assessing the system safety and deriving necessary evidence (e.g. SAR)
  • Lead the identification, assessment and mitigation of weapon-specific safety requirements, integrating them into the system safety lifecycle
  • Ensure compliance with applicable safety regulations and standards across all system-wide safety deliverables
  • Lead system-safety programmes and own artefacts such as the SSPP end to end
  • Conduct hazard identification, PHA and risk assessment across complex systems
  • Define system-level safety architecture and maintain traceability from requirements to functions
  • Assess and mitigate weapon-specific safety requirements within a system safety lifecycle
  • Interpret and apply relevant safety regulations and standards in a defence or safety-critical context
  • Communicate fluently in German and English (C1 or equivalent) to collaborate internationally and locally

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with functional safety standards such as MIL-STD-882 or comparable frameworks
  • Working knowledge of safety practices in weapon systems or safety-critical aerospace platforms

Standards

  • MIL-STD-882 Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems

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