Principal System Safety Engineer

RTX • McKinney, TX

4d • $107,500 - $204,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Raytheon’s System Safety / Human System Integration Department ensures product safety by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing solutions to protect people, hardware, and the environment throughout the system lifecycle. The Principal System Safety Engineer is accountable for establishing and executing major safety programs and serves as a technical expert in missile safety and as a project manager. The role establishes and monitors program safety execution, leads program safety teams, and interfaces with program and functional leadership. This is an onsite position in McKinney, Texas.

Requirements

• Typically, a STEM degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience developing and implementing MIL-STD-882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses.
• Experience writing technical reports and presentations.
• Experience briefing safety status to safety approval authorities at technical reviews, safety review boards, or other parts of the safety approval process.
• Experience managing or owning a safety program.
• Active and transferable Top Secret/SCI U.S. government-issued security clearance required prior to the start date; U.S. citizenship is required for eligibility.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with system safety program management, analysis, evaluation, and verification tasks (task series 100, 200, 300, and 400), including hardware and software safety-related tasks.
• Experience briefing at a military safety review board.
• Experience implementing system and software safety in an Agile development environment.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems and proposal development.
• Experience interfacing with Human Systems Integration and executing Human Factors Engineering tasks involving MIL-STD-1472.
• Experience with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, and System Safety Working Groups.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement MIL-STD-882E-compliant system safety programs, including management, analysis, evaluation, and verification tasks.
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications, and military standards, and recommend compliance strategies to program leadership.
• Create and manage safety strategies, integrate tasks into the Program Integrated Master Schedule, and ensure compliance with contract and funding requirements.
• Oversee safety budgets and execution, including Earned Value Management and coordination with CAMs, IPTLs, and product owners.
• Mentor early-career safety engineers.
• Engage in design change boards, including engineering review boards and configuration control boards, to assess impacts on safety programs.
• Coordinate and lead System Safety Working Groups with internal and external stakeholders, including government customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to identify and mitigate risks, eliminate hazards, and implement effective controls.
• Conduct safety analyses of engineering designs, hardware, mechanical and electrical drawings, schematics, and system requirements to ensure fault tolerance and safety compliance.
• Address safety-related interactions with suppliers and subcontractors.
• Manage safety considerations across design, integration and testing, flight test, production, field operations, returns, demilitarization, and disposal.
• Develop improved safety solutions and identify best practices to enhance the organization’s safety culture.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 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
• Holidays
• Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation
• Relocation eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior