Job Title:
Product Safety Team
Leader
Location:
Samlesbury (Full-time on site)
Salary:
£54,793 + depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
Leading
a team to
carry
out F-35 System Safety activities across all BAE Systems Contracts for Airframe, Vehicle System, Weapons Integration, and Sustainment
Developing, maintaining and updating safety documentation, including Hazard Assessment Summary Reports, Safety Engineering Memos, Safety Justification Reports, and Change Request statements
Conduct safety assessments for new and emerging safety issues within BAES areas of design responsibility
Providing
expert
guidance to Engineering teams on the evaluation of internal and external qualification and verification evidence from a safety perspective
Coaching junior members on maintaining hazards in the F-35 Hazard Log / Support and Service Hazard Log and Safety reporting to the industrial partners and customers including; support to System Safety Group (SSG) and Safety Working Group (SWG) activities
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Experience authoring and approving safety documentation or technical reports with knowledge of Safety
Management
Plans
Experience in an aircraft systems safety role or a support engineering safety role
Professionally registered (IEng / CEng) or working towards
Demonstrable knowledge of the system / software engineering lifecycle
Understanding of relevant engineering standards
Desirable:
Engineering degree or equivalent aircraft systems or Support systems engineering experience
Benefits
As well as a
competitive
pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Product Integrity Team:
You will be
leading
a team of Safety Engineers responsible for
managing
routine and urgent safety issues across the F-35 platform in line with the programme’s Safety
Management
System (SMS). You will play a key role in safeguarding platform safety, ensuring that risks are identified, assessed and addressed efficiently and effectively.
This position requires a high level of
initiative ,
strong
decision -making capability, and the
confidence
to work collaboratively with industrial partners, customers and wider stakeholders across the globe. Clear communication and the ability to build
strong
working relationships are essential to maintaining safety governance and driving timely resolution of issues.
The role
also offers development opportunities, with the chance to broaden technical
expertise, grow
leadership
capability, and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of safety processes within a high-profile and fast-paced programme environment.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder
etc .) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please
speak
to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export
control
restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict
the roles
you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All
applicants
must
as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where
applicants
must
typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for
the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date:
11th February 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for
the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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