Join Our Team as a Senior Product Compliance Engineer!
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth, or Manchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements—talk to your recruiter about the options available for this role!
Salary: Negotiable, based on your experience.
What You’ll Be Doing:
As a Senior Product Compliance Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring safety throughout the product design process. Your responsibilities will include:
* Participating in Daily Stand-Up Meetings (DSUM) to keep the team aligned.
* Engaging in design activities focused on risk reduction and analysis.
* Applying a systems engineering approach to safety products using a centralized modeling tool.
* Collaborating within a small safety team environment.
* Guiding non-safety experienced team members to achieve optimal safety outcomes.
* Preparing safety assessments to support system design and development.
* Contributing to Design Safety Justification inputs.
* Providing Safety Subject Matter Expertise (SME) during product design and gate reviews.
* Fostering a healthy product safety culture within the team and the wider business.
Your Skills and Experience:
We’re looking for candidates who bring the following qualifications:
* A STEM degree, ideally with experience in Product Safety within a regulated industry.
* Familiarity with UK Defence Standards and publications such as Defence Standard 00-56, Defence Standard 00-55, DSA-01, DSA-02.
* Knowledge of safety analysis techniques, including FHA, FTA, ETA, FMEA, and STPA.
* An understanding of IEC 61508 and/or IEC 61511 principles for complex Software and Hardware Safety Instrumented Systems.
Benefits:
At BAE Systems, we value our employees and offer a competitive benefits package, including:
* A robust pension scheme.
* Employee share plans.
* An extensive range of flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme and private health plans.
* Shopping discounts and potential eligibility for an annual incentive.
About the Safety Environmental Team:
In this role, you will focus on safety during the product design process, providing analysis and outputs to Principal Engineers to enhance design development. We also offer relocation support packages for all Submarines roles, subject to eligibility criteria.
Why Choose BAE Systems?
Join us and make a real difference! We foster an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, rewards integrity, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Important Security Information: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth may affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically necessitating 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Closing Date: 20th February 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please submit your application as soon as possible!
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