Safety & Reliability Engineer

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

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On behalf of our globally respected client who develop cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe and competitive solutions to meet the planet's vital power needs we are looking for a Safety & Reliability Engineer for a 12 month contract based in Bristol .

Job description - the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join a highly specialised engineering team supporting critical defence programmes in Bristol. This is a unique opportunity for a Safety & Reliability Engineer to work across some of the most advanced aero, naval and defence gas turbine applications in service today and under development for the future.

Working within a niche team, the Safety & Reliability Engineer will be responsible for assessing, understanding and predicting how complex systems and components perform throughout their operational life, ensuring safety, reliability and maintainability remain at the forefront of engineering decision-making.

You will support a broad portfolio of programmes spanning defence aerospace and naval propulsion systems, including mature and in-service engines, legacy platforms and new applications. The work involves analysing real-world service issues, investigating failures, evaluating risk and supporting engineering teams in making informed decisions, often with incomplete information.

Key Responsibilities

Perform Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Predictability assessments across defence and naval programmes.

Conduct and create Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), including both new assessments and updates to historical documentation.

Carry out Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Quantitativ...