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supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and
Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of
specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services,
specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational
subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team
and support key client projects.
Who we are supporting
The NATO Communication and Information
Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective
communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member
countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is
headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:
- Cyber
Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect
NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber
threats.
- Command and
Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by
NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
- Satellite
Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to
enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
- Electronic
Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's
mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication
networks.
- Information
Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology
infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.
Overall, the NCIA plays a critical
role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication
and information technology capabilities.
The program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and
Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability
deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends
the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable
Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand
together in the face of attack under Article V.
To provide these critical services, in
the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build
and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency
workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO
International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce
Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI
Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total
workforce.
Role Background
As a capability provider, the NCI Agency is obliged to deliver
systems that meet the legal safety requirements of the Nations by
ensuring that they are procured, designed, implemented, and maintained
to be tolerably safe to operate. This obligation covers the entire
system’s life cycle and scope and requires continuous effort to reach
and maintain the accepted safety targets.
Nations tasked NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) Air
Command and Control (AirC2) Centre to perform a safety assessment of
MASE, ASIM, ALF-SFP, ALF-L1, NISP, CSI, L16@29K and ACCS. These
decisions are recorded in the Programme Of Work and Memorandum of
Working Arrangements.
To show full safety compliance against the applicable safety standard
(i.e. IEC 61508 version 2.0, DS 00-55 issue 2 dated 1st August 1997,
MIL-882 Rev E) the safety assessments shall be reviewed by a
certification body. In the absence of a NATO Certification Body, an
Independent Safety Auditor is required to perform the review and counter
sign.
A Safety Engineer from AirC2 Centre/Business Assurance (BA)
Functional Group (FG)/Quality and Safety Assessment (QSA) Team cannot
perform this work as the full independency criteria would not be
satisfied. An AirC2 Centre QSA Safety Engineer can only hold the role of
either an author or peer reviewer.
For some nations, having the AirC2 system in full compliance with a
relevant safety standard and shown to achieve its defined safety
targets, is a mandatory criterion to allow live operations to be shown
to support an overall SIL1 claim e.g. deployment of DARS to DEU for
RADU23, NOR requirement for MASE.
Therefore, it is critical to have an Independent Safety Auditor
review and counter sign the software safety assessment to fully comply
with the clauses of the relevant safety standard for the identified
safety objectives and to perform the safety audits against the processes
defined in the Quality and Safety Management Systems.
To strengthen the Alliance through connecting its forces, the NCI
Agency delivers secure, coherent, cost effective and interoperable
communications and information systems in support of consultation,
command & control and enabling intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance capabilities, for NATO, where and when required. It
includes IT support to the Alliances’ business processes (to include
provision of IT shared services) to the NATO HQ, the Command Structure
and NATO Agencies.
The AirC2 Centre, as part of the NCIA, delivers 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. In doing so, the
AirC2 Centre contributes to NATO's Integrated Air and Missile Defence
operations and continuously evolves NATO authorised systems and services
to empower seamless, resilient and adaptable NATO operations in a multi
domain environment.
The BA FG ensures that the AirC2 Centre delivers high-quality
products and services to its customers and stakeholders. The BA FG is
responsible for the direction, management and execution of the
activities related to the Integration, Verification, Operational
Validation and Acceptance of the Systems and capabilities delivered by
the AirC2 centre. In addition the Functional Group defines, establishes
and maintains a mission assurance framework, in line with the NCI
Agency's policy and directives, in order to provide quality and safety
assurance.
The QSA Team performs quality and safety assurance services for
products and services managed by AirC2 and BMD. In conjunction with the
Chief Quality Office (CQO), QSA Team also establishes and improves the
ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS), and is solely responsible for
the Safety Management System (SMS) utilized by Integrated Air and
Missile Defence (IAMD). Finally, QSA Team leads the quality culture in
AirC2 and BMD, maintains coherence with other areas of the Agency, and,
supports internal and external audits.
In the light of these activities, AirC2 Centre is looking for a
person to perform an independent safety audit and counter-sign all the
Safety Assessments produced for the AirC2 developed baselines, by:
- Confirming the specified safety objectives (targets and
requirements) are appropriate for the project/product and compliant with
established, policies and processes (e.g. EUROCONTROL SAM, MIL-882, IEC
61508, DS 00-55).
- Validating that project safety objectives are unambiguously defined,
testable and adequately covered in the engineering, verification &
validation and test activities of a project.
- Reviewing the Software Safety Assessment / Safety Case produced by
the AirC2 Safety Engineer to verify and validate compliance with the
defined safety related plans, requirements, standards, and legal
regulations.
- Recording the result of review and providing recommendations for
corrective, preventive and improvement measures to the Safety Engineer
and to the Project Manager.
- Independently audit the AirC2 Centre processes against the IEC 61508 and DS 00-55 and produce an audit report.
- Maintain a high-level of competence in System Safety Engineering and Human Factors and related best practices.
Role Duties and Responsibilities
Software Safety Assessment/Safety Case
- Confirming the specified safety objectives (targets and
requirements) are appropriate for the project/product and compliant with
established, policies and processes i.e. IEC 61508, MIL-STD 882,
Integrated Air Missile Defence (IAMD) Quality Management System (QMS).
- Validating that project safety objectives are unambiguously defined,
testable and adequately covered in the engineering, verification &
validation and test activities of a project.
- Reviewing the Software/System Safety Assessment, the Software/System
Safety Assessment Annexes (e.g. Proven-In-Use report, Fault Tree
Analysis) produced by the AirC2 Safety Engineer to verify and validate
compliance with the defined safety related plans, requirements,
standards, and legal regulations.
- Recording in the form of comments the result of review and providing
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
- Deliverable: Record the result of documents review and provide
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
Functional Failure Analysis
- Reviewing the Functional Failure Analysis (FFA) produced by the
AirC2 Safety Engineer to verify and validate compliance with the defined
safety related plans, requirements, standards, and legal regulations.
In addition, to ensure that the FFA is complete and correct and that the
safety test recommendations commensurate the hazardous failure modes.
- Recording in the form of comments the result of review and providing
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
- Deliverable: Record the result of FFA review in the document itself
and in SharePoint commit and provide recommendations for corrective,
preventive and improvement measures to the Safety Engineer and to the
Project Manager.
Tool Qualification Report
- Reviewing the Tool Qualification Report (TQR) produced by the AirC2
Safety Engineer to verify and validate compliance of COTS/Tools with the
defined safety related plans, requirements, standards, and legal
regulations.
- Recording in the form of comments the result of review and providing
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
- Deliverable: Record the result of TQR review in the document itself
and in SharePoint commit and provide recommendations for corrective,
preventive and improvement measures to the Safety Engineer and to the
Project Manager.
Requirements and Design Description (RDD)
- Confirming the specified safety objectives (targets and
requirements) are appropriate for the project/product and compliant with
established, policies and processes i.e. MIL-882, IEC 61508, Integrated
Air Missile Defence (IAMD) Quality Management System (QMS).
- Validating that project safety objectives are unambiguously defined,
testable and adequately covered in the engineering, verification &
validation and test activities of a project.
- Reviewing the RDD produced for Lifecycle Engineering Change Proposal
(L-ECP) with Medium and High Implementation Safety Classification and
any safety relevant RDD Annexes produced by the AirC2 Safety Engineer to
verify and validate compliance with the defined safety related plans,
requirements, standards, and legal regulations.
- Recording in the form of comments the result of review and providing
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.\
- Deliverable: Record the result of documents review and provide
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
Audits and Process Reviews
- Independently audit the AirC2 processes against the IEC 61508 and DS 00-55 and produce an audit report.
- Independently review the updates to the AirC2 safety management
processes against the IEC 61508 and DS 00-55 and produce an audit
report.
- Recording in the form of comments the result of review and providing
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
- Deliverable: Record the result of documents review and provide
recommendations for corrective, preventive and improvement measures to
the Safety Engineer and to the Project Manager.
Essential Skills and Experience
- 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 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;
- Knowledge of risk management principles;
- Knowledge of testing principles;
- Professional certifications in the area of:
- Functional Safety;
- Health & Safety;
- System/Software Development;
- Lead Auditor Qualifications
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Mathematical / statistical analysis methods and techniques, reinforced by theoretical knowledge;
- Training or professional certifications in the area of:
- Testing;
- Knowledge of AirC2 Systems
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.
- A thorough knowledge of one of the English languages, both written
and spoken, is essential and some knowledge of the other NATO official
language (French) is desirable.
Language Proficiency
Education
- A Master’s degree at a nationally recognized/certified university in
a related discipline and 5 years’ post related experience; Or a
Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognized/certified university in a
related discipline and 8 years’ post related experience
Working Location
Working Policy
Travel
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
Security Clearance
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
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