Principal Engineer - Safety Engineering (Product Safety)
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Job Title: Principal Engineer - Safety Engineering (Product Safety)
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. 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:
* Develop, implement and maintain the Safety Management System
* Produce and manage Project Safety Management Plans
* Lead Product Safety hazard and risk identification, management and assessment activities
* Oversee the administration and management of the Project Hazard Log
* Understand the application of wider Safety Case, Quality and HS&E Management System documentation
* Lead engagement with internal and external customers, ensuring that their requirements are fully considered and adequately supported where appropriate and agreed
* Complete peer reviews, checking, verification and assurance tasks to demonstrate the adequacy and robustness of the Safety Case and supporting documentation
* Oversee and peer review junior rules in the Product Safety team
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Understanding of engineering safety management processes, such as hazard analysis, logical safety arguments and safety case report
* Reasonable understanding of safety within systems engineering - including establishment of good engineering requirements and how they will be delivered through engineering processes
* Understanding of ALARP principles and application of processes
Desirable:
* Systems engineering Tools and techniques - (e.g. DOORS, Enterprise Architect)
* Worked in a defence or other complex systems environment involving software products
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 Safety & Environmental team:
This role will require regular interaction with the Principal Engineering Manager - Product Integrity and interaction with Engineering Delivery Managers and Senior Engineering managers within the Integrated Design Teams (IDT), Office of Chief Engineer, externally into the UK MoD, SDA and SSNA partners as required.
As the Senior Safety & Environmental Engineering Consultant you will be responsible for providing support to the Head of Engineering SSNA/Principal Engineering Manager - Product Integrity. You will also be responsible for the development and maintenance of the Project Product Safety Management System and Product Safety Cases for the SSNA project and be able to resolve & guide others in solving complex project-related issues/ conflicts across disciplines from a Product Safety perspective.
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 (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 July 2025
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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