Principal Product Safety Engineer
Location: Frimley, Weymouth, Bristol, Portsmouth, Barrow-in-Furness, Devonport, Plymouth or Brough, dependant on role and your personal circumstances. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Providing advice on product safety matters to project and engineering managers delivering the programmes and ensuring the safety considerations (DEF STAN 0055/0056) are correctly considered and implemented.
* Engaging with third parties to review and gather supporting safety case evidence.
* Developing safety arguments, both physical and functional, using appropriate safety analysis methods (e.g. FHA/STPA/FMEA/FTA) and producing and updating safety case and safety management documentation using appropriate regulations and standards.
* Line managing other safety practitioners.
* Applying ALARP principles.
Essential Skills and Experience
* Experience with safety engineering processes, practices and tools.
* Clear understanding of safety engineering & assurance principles.
* Experience as a qualified engineer from other disciplines who displays the correct behaviours and has an understanding of safety engineering; such candidates will be actively considered for this role.
Desirable Skills
* Good communication skills and the ability to interact and manage stakeholders.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems 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 Combat Systems Safety Team
Working closely with several engineers and technical specialists on both In‑Service and In‑Build Combat Systems, you will have the opportunity to work on developing safety arguments. This will include developing an understanding of new technologies and sensor systems used to support the safety arguments. We welcome people with experience in the military, defence and maritime industries, who can use their knowledge and learning to help us ensure that we provide the best products into submarines. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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 that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please note 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, at a minimum, achieve the 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.
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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