Principal Safety & Environmental Engineer
BAE Systems
Closing Date: 8th May 2025
Full Job Description
Job Title: Principal Safety & Environmental Engineer
Location: Barrow-In-Furness, Portsmouth, BroadOak, Frimley, Weymouth, Plymouth or Bristol
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience
What you’ll be doing:
1. Support the derivation and management of Product Safety requirements derived from Product Safety hazard and risk identification.
2. Work in accordance with Project Safety Management Plans.
3. Influence the development of a safe design, the Project Safety Case including logical technical safety arguments and Safety Case justification reports.
4. Support hazard identification meetings and maintain the project hazard log.
5. Complete peer reviews, checking, verification, and assurance tasks to demonstrate the adequacy and robustness of the Safety Case and supporting documentation.
Your skills and experiences:
1. Understanding of engineering safety management processes, such as hazard analysis, logical safety arguments, and safety case reports.
2. Reasonable understanding of safety within systems engineering, including establishing good engineering requirements and how they will be delivered through engineering processes.
3. Understanding of ALARP principles and application of processes.
4. Experience with systems engineering tools and techniques (e.g., DOORS, Enterprise Architect).
5. Experience working in a defense or other complex systems environment involving software products.
Benefits include a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, shopping discounts, and potential annual incentives.
The SSNA Combat System Team:
As a Principal Engineer, you will support the Engineering Delivery Manager in developing, delivering, and maintaining the Project Product Safety Management System and Safety Case to ensure products are safe to own and legal to operate. You will join a team of about 50 engineers, collaborating from the early stages of major development programs, with opportunities to influence project progress and develop your career within BAE Systems. Relocation support packages are available for eligible roles.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you can make a real difference. We value diversity, reward integrity and merit, and empower you to fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, especially from underrepresented communities, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Please discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.
Note: Many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions based on nationality and residency. Applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard; higher security vetting may require 5-10 years of UK residency.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. We encourage early applications.
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