For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.
Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join Air Command and Control Centre (AirC2C) that ensures the delivery planning, development, procurement, implementation and In-Service Support of NATO authorised AirC2 capabilities across the Alliance and bilaterally in the European Nations of the Alliance, satisfying the operational requirements, assuring the coherence, integrity and interoperability of the involved NATO and national systems and sub-systems.
We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Safety Engineer who will take on the following roles and responsibilities, amongst others:

• Develops the processes and metric data requirements necessary to implement the NCI Agency safety policy and framework applicable to the development of safety-related systems;
• Develops and implements safety plans to ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations, including effort estimations and strategies to ensure product compliance with identified safety objectives in the given timelines;
• In collaboration with engineering staff and teams, defines the safety objectives and requirements for safety-related maintained products or new capabilities and services;
• Ensures that these criteria / requirements are unambiguously defined, testable and adequately covered in the engineering, verification and validation activities of the project(s); the Safety Engineer is responsible and accountable for the safety deliverables and for striving to achieve the identified safety targets and health and safety objectives;
• Develops and maintains the safety specific and related documentation, comprising of functional safety and health and safety analyses (e.g. System Safety Case, Software Safety Case, Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Hazard Log, Fault Tree Analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, Functional Mode and Effect Analysis, Site Health & Safety Inspection Reports), in support of the safety-related systems and related projects;
• Reviews project artefacts to verify their compliance with the defined safety related plans, requirements, standards, and legal regulations;
• Attends and supports the appropriate walkthroughs, reviews, audits and test activities to ensure that the defined safety engineering processes are followed;
• Performs Health & Safety analysis and site inspections and documents the results in the Safety Case;

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor of Science (BSc) or Master of Science (MSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject related to the duties of the position, preferably with substantial Information Technology (IT) content;
• Recent practical experience of contributing, developing or maintaining safety analyses in the field of system and/or software safety, preferably within large-scale distributed software intensive systems;
• Practical experience in the field of system architecture, design or software development or maintenance preferably on safety critical system or software;
• Knowledge of Safety Engineering Theory (e.g. IEC61508 , Mil-Std 882, UK Def Std 00-55, UK Def Std 00-56, ESARR, EUROCONTROL SAM, ED-153, DO-178, etc.), and desirably of NATO policies and standards for Quality i.e. ISO 9001 or CMMI;
• Experience and knowledge in the field of occupational hazards related to equipment, installation and hazards associated with operating and support tasks;
• Knowledge of Air Operations;
• Experience in a project management recognized framework;
• Experience in briefing international audiences;
• Experience in contracts and contractors management;
• Mathematical / statistical analysis methods and techniques, reinforced by theoretical knowledge;
• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements;
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
• Excellent private health insurance scheme;
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
• NATO Pension Scheme;
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.