Overview
Job title: Lead Product Safety Engineer
Location: Warton – hybrid and flexible working arrangements may be available. Please speak to your recruiter about options for this role.
Salary: £54,793 depending on experience
What you’ll be doing
* Evaluate aircraft and system/sub-system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle.
* Generate, update and review Aircraft, System and Sub-System Safety Engineering outputs to industry safety standards.
* Ensure that Certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety with respect to Design Airworthiness requirements and identified hazards.
* Assess customer deviations from the design for adverse impact on product integrity and identify recovery routes (where necessary).
* Support the risk assessments, ensuring suitable justification exists for action and the adequacy of proposed remedial/recovery actions in mitigating product safety risk/safety performance degradation.
* Liaise with customers (internal and external) to agree delivery timescales.
* Allocate tasking to suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team; manage people responsibilities (career development plans, aspirations, etc.).
* Provide leadership and guidance to the team, ensuring alignment of daily activities with project goals, maintaining regular dialogue with stakeholders and accurate reporting for your area of responsibility.
* Liaise with the senior engineering population to ensure availability of suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team.
Your skills and experiences
* Essential:
* A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience.
* Safety engineering experience in a safety‑critical industry.
* Safety/project team leader experience.
* Desirable:
* Engineering integration role within any lifecycle/product area.
* Requirements engineering, configuration and data management.
* Qualification and certification – Chartership/working towards Model Based Systems Engineering, Agile/Scrum Development.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and an extensive range of flexible 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.
About the team
The Platform Integration Safety Team is where safety, innovation and future air power come together. As a Lead Product Safety Engineer, you will work on one of the many platforms BAE Systems Air has to offer, ensuring they are safe and sustainable and ready to take on tomorrow’s challenges. You will have opportunities to work on multiple projects, from shaping the world’s next sixth‑generation fighter jet, to advancing today’s aircraft with AI, autonomy and digital engineering, to supporting global customers in keeping their fleets at peak performance.
Why BAE Systems
We don’t just deliver capability; we help define the safety, security and environmental standards that guide the aerospace industry for decades to come. This is a place where you can make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values thought, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.
Inclusive recruitment
We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to ensure our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a 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.
Security and eligibility
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as nationality, any previous citizenship, and place of birth can restrict role eligibility. All applicants must, at a minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Some roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting (typically 5 to 10 years of continuous UK residency) to allow for security checks.
Closing Date: 23 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
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