Company Overview

CDS Defence & Security (CDS DS) is part of the Bailie Group a family-owned group of agencies and consultancies with the collective mission to improve people’s lives by sharing knowledge.

CDS DS is an industry leading technical consultancy delivering world class services in Support Engineering, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, Training & Leadership Development and Communications. We exist to make the world a safer place and do this by providing sophisticated training solutions, operational support, information assurance and engineering support to a breadth of clients within the defence and security domain.

With over 50 years’ experience, we have a well-deserved reputation for providing our clients with complete peace of mind. From delivering forward-thinking training to the UK Armed Forces, to working in partnership with Tier 1 defence and security providers on some of the most significant defence programmes of recent years, the CDS DS name has become synonymous with trust, quality, collaboration, and truly visionary approach to the most complex of problems.

About the role

As part of our exciting growth plans, we are looking for a Safety Engineer to join our Safety and Environmental Team. As part of the team, you will produce and deliver safety artefacts to support our defence and industry contracts.

As a Safety Engineer you will be passionate about safety and providing independent and assured safety advice. You will support the delivery of safety artifacts to schedule, quality and budget, whilst meeting client and expectations. Your knowledge and experience of safety and risk management techniques, processes and concepts will allow you to support our clients in meeting their safety requirements.

You will be based in Cheltenham with hybrid working but you may be required to visit or work on client sites, as required.

Responsibilities

• Undertake work, as directed by the Safety & Environmental Lead Engineer, as part of the safety and environmental team.
• Produce safety artefacts following the guidance in a range of applicable standards.
• Deliver safety artefacts to time, cost and quality.
• Follow the procedures in the CDS DS Safety & Environmental Management System to the level of quality described in the Quality Management System.
• Support Project Safety and Environmental Panels (PSEPs)
• Produce Safety and Environmental Case Reports (SECRs) and Environmental Impact assessments (EIAs).
• Delivery of own aspects of project(s) to meet the client’s needs and make the agreed level of contribution.
• Ensure own aspects of projects are delivered within the client’s boundary and make the agreed level of margin contribution.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

The successful candidate is s required to possess and display appropriate levels and understanding in the following areas :

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic team member, ideally with a UK Defence background in engineering, risk management or system safety; alternatively, experience gained within the other regulated sectors will be considered.

You will have practical experience in the following areas :

Development and management of hazard logs;

Benefits

Hybrid & Homeworking

To ensure the health, safety & wellbeing of our employees we have minimum standards for homeworking environments which must be maintained. Further details available on request.