Aerospace Safety Engineer – Combat Aircraft

Expleo Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive benefits

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Expleo Group is seeking Safety Engineers in the United Kingdom to help develop and integrate safe, certifiable systems for next-generation combat air capabilities. You will work with systems, software and platform engineering teams to embed safety throughout the lifecycle, supporting evidence-driven safety cases and certification processes.

The role focuses on safety assessment, artefacts, hazard analysis, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver compliant, high-assurance aerospace

Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace/defence or highly regulated industries is desirable.
• Right to work in the UK and ability to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer/partner locations.

Responsibilities

• Support safety assessment activities.
• Develop safety artefacts and engineering evidence.
• Participate in hazard identification activities.
• Support safety case development.
• Contribute to design reviews and governance activities.
• Support certification and assurance activities.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Produce technical reports and documentation.

Skills

System safety engineering

Hazard identification

Risk analysis

FHA

PSSA

SSA

Safety requirements management

Safety case development

Assurance evidence generation

AR P4754A

AR P4761

Military airworthiness frameworks

Software safety

MBSE integration

Cyber and safety interactions

Autonomous systems assurance

Digital engineering environments

Education

Degree in Software Engineering/CS/Electronic Engineering or related STEM

Job description

Expleo Group is seeking Safety Engineers in the United Kingdom to help develop and integrate safe, certifiable systems for next-generation combat air capabilities. You will work with systems, software and platform engineering teams to embed safety throughout the lifecycle, supporting evidence-driven safety cases and certification processes.

The role focuses on safety assessment, artefacts, hazard analysis, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver compliant, high-assurance aerospace