Location Adelaide
Job type Permanent
Salary AU$170000 - AU$210000 per annum + TAP
Specialisation Engineering
Contact person Lewis Landau
Reference PR/062296
Call Email Lewis

Systems Safety Engineer

Location: Adelaide, South Australia or Perth, Western Australia

Employment Type: Permanent or Contract

Are you an experienced Systems Safety Engineer looking to make an impact within Australia's defence industry?

Kinexus is partnering with a specialist engineering consultancy that plays a key role in supporting a major Defence Prime. This consultancy is actively engaged in a long-standing, prominent naval program for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), ensuring the safety and reliability of future maritime platforms and systems.

Whether you're seeking a permanent role or a contracting opportunity, this position offers flexibility while allowing you to make a meaningful contribution to Defence and national security.

The Role:

  • Develop and implement system safety frameworks in accordance with Defence standards
  • Conduct functional hazard analysis, risk assessments, safety case development, and safety assurance activities.
  • Perform Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Support design safety reviews, compliance assessments, and independent safety audits
  • Work closely with engineers to ensure human factors, software safety, and reliability engineering principles are integrated
  • Work closely with Defence stakeholders and program managers to ensure mission-critical safety compliance

Experience Required:

  • Bachelor of Engineering within Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics or similar
  • Active NV1 (or higher) Security Clearance - Mandatory
  • Strong background in Systems Safety Engineering, Systems Engineering lifecycle, Reliability Engineering and any related tooling/processes.
  • Exposure to Defence projects, ideally within the Maritime/Naval space.
  • Experience with hazard logs, FMECA, FHA, PSSA/SSA, and safety case development
  • Experience working alongside Human Factors, both ergonomic and Human Machine Interface (HMI).
  • Familiarity with relevant Defence safety standards.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement, communications and technical leadership skills
  • Good technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.

If you think you match the above criteria, please apply in Word or PDF format only.

Kinexus is the leading supplier for recruitment solutions to the Australian Defence Industry bringing intelligent connections and ideas together to better our sovereign nations capabilities in the field, at sea or in the air.