System Safety Engineer

LPR International is seeking a System Safety Engineer to support a client. This is a remote position but may require travel to the client site.

Job Duties:

• Under general supervision, reviews, analyzes, and prepares contractor, subcontractor and customer program submittals including accident risk assessment reports; preliminary hazard analyses, system hazard analyses, tracking system and system inspection checklists, ground and range safety and orbital safety procedures, and accident and incident investigation analyses.
• Reviews and analyzes program development documentation for new and ongoing program including design criteria, specification and drawing, test operations and maintenance procedures, safety equipment and personal protective clothing, trade-off studies and sighting plans; conducts independent and complex analyses to evaluate system design, accident risk factors and hazard energy sources and recommends major abatement or mitigation actions to prevent or correct safety hazards. Prepares test plans, monitors results and prepares final test reports.
• Conducts special analyses as directed.
• Prepares materials for presentations and participates in design reviews, technical interchange and related meetings.
• Provides day-to-day technical responsibility of the multiple system safety efforts for projects including payloads, launch vehicles, and ground support equipment.
• Maintains overall knowledge of NASA Safety Policy and ensures customer satisfaction by responding to customer requirements encompassing these engineering disciplines.
• Responsible for properly identifying customer problems and issues, researching program requirements, and determining the most effective solution given technical qualifications and contractual requirements.
• Provides guidance and works independently with the customer

Qualifications:

Essential:

• BA/BS degree (i.e., engineering, mathematics or physics).
• Experience: 7 or more years of directly related experience

Desirable Skills:

• Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability
• Requires excellent communication skills.
• Interacts regularly with customer representatives concerning work in progress
• Interpersonal relationship building and customer interfacing skills are desired.
• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective independently
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions
• Strong, open communication and interpersonal skills.
• Initiative, confidence, integrity and professionalism. Able to deal with commercially and personally sensitive issues effectively and appropriately.

Equipment:

• Efficient use of personal computer and other office equipment such as fax, copier, printer, etc.  Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, Internet, and other technical resources.

Physical Demands:

• Intermittent physical activity including bending, reaching, standing, climbing stairs, kneeling, and/or stooping.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger dexterity, handle, or feel objects tools or controls, teach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk and hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision; color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• Ability to work in a fast paced/demanding environment.  Must be self-motivated, independent and responsible for assigned workload.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

All applicants requiring alternative methods of application or screening should contact LPR International directly. 

LPR International is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran, military discharge status, criminal records that have been sealed or expunged, arrest records not resulting in conviction or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and/or local law.