Project Safety Manager

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Project Safety Manager will support engineering operations, focusing on safety, product regulatory and environmental compliance. This role involves applying safety engineering techniques, driving safety processes, and reporting across various business segments. Responsibilities include ensuring solutions are safe, improving the system safety management system, enhancing system safety engineering capabilities, and mentoring personnel. The position is based in Melbourne CBD and requires a strong understanding of system safety engineering processes and relevant standards.
Must have:
  • Tertiary qualification or extensive experience in System Safety or related discipline.
  • Sound understanding of Systems Safety Engineering process in a safety critical industry.
  • Familiarity with reducing safety hazards and risks.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply system safety techniques and conduct hazard analyses.
  • Technical aptitude and ability to comprehend product engineering requirements.
Perks:
  • Family Friendly Workplace Certified company with competitive remuneration and benefits.
  • ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment.
  • Fitness Passport Discount + Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance).
  • Modernised Paid Parental Leave.
  • Veterans Leave.
  • Personal & professional training development opportunities.

Job Details

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

From manufacturing and engineering to cybersecurity and space, we’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries – and working together to build a future we can all trust.

Our Benefits:

  • Family Friendly Workplace Certified company with competitive remuneration and benefits.
  • ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment.
  • Fitness Passport Discount + Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance).
  • Modernised Paid Parental Leave.
  • Veterans Leave.
  • Personal & professional training development opportunities.

Your role:

The Project Safety Manager is responsible for supporting the engineering operations of the Vehicle Tactical Systems technical and engineering competence centre (VTS-ECC) with a focus on safety engineering, product regulatory and environmental compliance (HSE-P).

The role spans responsibility across the domain in the four businesses of Protected Mobility Vehicles (PRV), Australian Munitions (AM), Integrated Weapon Systems (IWS) and Explosive Ordinance Services (EOS), and is responsible for applying safety engineering techniques, driving safety process, policy and reporting across the segments in support of engineering transformation of the VTS Engineering Competence Centre.

This is a permanent position based at our office in Melbourne CBD.

Some key responsibilities:

  • Support VTS in developing and delivering solutions (products, support equipment, systems, and services) that are adequately safe for their intended purpose to eliminate or reduce harm to people, equipment and the environment,
  • Apply the system safety management system by monitoring, identifying and proposing improvement required to ensure ongoing best practice,
  • Contribute to continuous enhancement of the systems safety engineering capability across the VTS business, by recommending optimisation of tools, processes, techniques and methodologies. Thus, ensuring the application of systems safety engineering ‘best-practice’, through optimal execution of assigned tasks,
  • Supporting the embedding of an enduring system safety capability and culture. This includes facilitating on the job mentoring to personnel involved in system safety activities and decision making.

On day one you will come with:

  • Tertiary qualification and/or extensive experience in System Safety / Risk / Reliability / Systems Engineering or in a related discipline including, but not limited to Engineering, Computer Science, Human Factors, Transport
  • Sound understanding and experience of the Systems Safety Engineering process in a safety critical industry such a Defence, Land Domain, Manufacturing, Vehicles, Railway, Aerospace, Nuclear or Oil & Gas:
  • Familiarity with reducing safety hazards and risks so far as “reasonably practicable” (SFARP), Risk matrices, Energy Systems Hazard Analysis and Hazard Controls Hierarchy,
  • Familiarity with relevant safety standards e.g. SAFETYMAN - Defence Safety Manual (SafetyMan), MIL-STD-882E, Land Materiel Safety Manual (LMSM) and Work Health and Safety (WHS) Acts etc.  
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively apply system safety techniques and tools and conduct hazard analyses and risk management activities - including the facilitation of workshops,
  • Technical aptitude (strong problem solving/analytical skills) and ability to comprehend and appreciate product engineering and requirements and constraints across a range of mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering domains to identify and resolve technical challenges, reporting and make informed decisions,
  • You are familiar with management and engineering tools such as DOORS, Polarion, TFS, JIRA

It’s easy to dismiss the perfect opportunity if you don’t see yourself as the perfect fit. If this role feels right – no matter your background or personal circumstances – please introduce yourself or join our community. We’re committed to supporting a diverse workplace, and that starts here.

We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 as an Employer for All Women, but we know there’s always more we can do. We’ll continue to foster industry partnerships, employee resource groups (ERGs) and development opportunities to make Thales a genuinely equitable employer, for everyone.

Read more about our WORK180 endorsement.

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