Safety and Reliability Engineer

Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

Thales Navigation And non-radar Surveillance (NAS) business segment, part of the Thales Land and Air Systems Global Business Unit, architects solutions used by two-thirds of all planes worldwide to take off and land safely. Our Ground Navigation portfolio offers a complete range of products, which includes the latest generation of ground-based navigational aids (NAVAIDs) (e.g. ILS, DME, TACAN, VOR) and non-radar surveillance (e.g. ADS-B).
With more than 7,000 NAVAIDs and non-radar surveillance installed worldwide in 172 countries, we are world leaders in the NAVAIDs market.
The Safety Engineer position is part of Engineering Department, and consists globally in contributing to all safety related activities to ensure and demostrate that the safety objectives have been met, throughout the entire life cycle of the product/solution.

Responsibilities
• Ensure fundamental safety requirements are considered for solution element or component design and development by performing safety analyses (FHA, PSSA...)
• Contribute to formalization of allocated safety and reliability requirements(including assurance level) to solution elements or components, to their interfaces and their verification criteria,
• Contribute to elaboration of technical solution through safety rules, regulations and specific constraints,
• Ensure design, development and verification are correctly performed against safety and reliability requirements,
• Participate in solution integration and verifies that solution meets safety requirements by performing analyses such as FTA and FMEA

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
• Scientific Degree with at least 3 years’ experience
• Knowledge of Air Traffic Management domain (particularly Navigation and Surveillance) and related
technologies
• Hands-on experience with safety and reliability analysis techniques (FTA, FMEA...)
• Familiar with combinatorial and probabilistic analyses
• Fluency with English
• Motivation to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment
• Motivation to learn

• Working knowledge of system engineering, software and hardware processes
• Knowledge of aerospace domain system and safety assessment processes: ARP 4754B, ARP 4761A, EUROCONTROL SAM
• Knowledge of aerospace domain quality assurance processes for HW/SW: EUROCAE ED-109 / RTCA DO-278, EUROCAE ED-80 / RTCA DO-254
• Knowledge of reliability standards: MIL-HDBK-217F, ANSI VITA 5.1 reliability prediction, MIL-HDBK-472 maintainability

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