Product Safety and Reliability Engineer

Job Purpose

The Product Safety and Reliability Engineer will perform a key Product Engineering Support role across multiple projects, usually during product development but also maintaining records and customer artefacts through life as required. Reporting to the Supportability Engineering Lead, with supervision from the Senior ILS Engineer and Senior Safety Engineer, this role will cover both Drumgrange sites and ensure that Product Safety and Reliability data is accurately collated and analysed.

Reporting to: Supportability Team Lead

What you’ll do

Routine:

• Undertake Product Safety Test and Analysis – ensuring Drumgrange products meet the applicable Safety and Environmental requirements.
• Generate Materials and Components Lists – derived from individual Items Lists, feeding a central repository.
• Manage Datasheet Libraries – including Technical Data, Safety Data and RoHS compliance evidence.
• Undertake Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) – including administration and reporting.
• Perform Reliability predictions at component and system level – including collating MTBF data from the OEM, Suppliers and MIL-HDBK-217.
• Maintain Data Reporting and Corrective Action System (DRACAS) – including inputting data into DRACAS and reporting to monthly project / ILS Working Groups.

Exceptional:

• Provide additional assistance to the ILS Team i.e. Maintainability Task Analysis, Obsolescence Risk Register management.

What you’ll need

• Previous experience of working in the Defence or related sector, either serving military, MoD or contracting.
• Familiar with relevant Safety Defence Standards (e.g. 00-55, 00-56), and Reliability Defence Standards (e.g. 00-42, 00-44).
• Engineering HND.
• Eng Tech Professional Registration (or working towards).
• Human Factors experience.
• Experience in product Reliability or Safety data collection and analysis.
• Commitment to quality, performance and cost, delivering on-time to the highest standard.
• The ability to work autonomously when required, whilst maintaining a highly effective output with professional integrity.
• The ability to adapt and be agile to specific project requirements and demand change at short notice.
• Highly competent computer skills including MS Office suite.
• Excellent literacy and communication skills.
• Holding or the ability to attain SC UK security clearance.

Progression Route

Due to the increase in ILS deliverables both on contract and expected under future contracts, there a requirement for additional resource to bridge resource heavy Supportability activities. This role could see progression to a Senior Engineer role managing discrete ILS elements in the future.

What you’ll get

• Full lifecycle and vertical exposure: You choose the direction of your career
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu: Gain up to 24 additional days leave per year
• Flexible working: We operate on core working hours of 09:30 – 12:00 & 14:00 – 16:00
• Role-specific allowances: You won’t be out of pocket
• Holiday Closedown: Most employees are off between 24th December to the 2nd January
• Pension scheme: Competitive employer-matched scheme
• Private Medical Care: Access a network of 50+ private clinics and hospitals nationwide
• Training and upskilling: We are committed to your personal and professional development
• Salary sacrifice schemes: Fancy a new Bike? Got your eye on some Tech?
• Gym discounts: Or the use of our onsite gym in our Chertsey office
• Company Tech: Laptops, mobiles, and home office equipment
• Relocation Package: Spend less time traveling and more time living

Why Drumgrange?

As a small-medium enterprise, we benefit from having a flat organisation structure with only a few levels between a junior role and a department head, so you can spend more time with technical application and less time wrangling with red tape. It also means that your voice is heard and there is plenty of opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact upon the business.

Roles here present fantastic opportunities to be involved across the whole design lifecycle, and with such a wide portfolio of products and capabilities, you can expect varied and career-expanding work that takes you across different engineering domains and environments.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. Please be aware that many of our roles will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities held, and your place of birth may limit the roles you can perform in our organisation.