Engineering Manager - Product Safety

ZipRecruiter; Cowes; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking an Engineering Manager – Product Safety to oversee product safety and environmental engineering across radar programs. The role includes leading a team, resolving safety challenges, and ensuring compliance with technical standards. Candidates should have a degree in Engineering and at least 5 years of relevant experience. A hybrid working model is available.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in system safety engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status or willingness to work towards.
• Recognized member of a relevant industry body.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities.
• Manage the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team.
• Resolve complex safety challenges through expertise.

Skills

System safety engineering

Knowledge of legislation and regulations

Product Safety Management System expertise

Technical standards knowledge

Education

Degree in Engineering/Systems/Safety

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Product Safety
Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight; Great Baddow, Chelmsford; or Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about options for this role. Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience and bonus scheme.

As Engineering Manager – Product Safety, you will lead product safety and environmental engineering across radar programmes and projects, and oversee the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team to deliver safety and environmental commitments on cost, quality, schedule and specification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities across radar programmes and projects.
• Manage and integrate the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team, overseeing resources, work packages, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Ensure delivery of safety and environmental commitments and deliverables on cost, quality, schedule, and specification.
• Resolve complex safety challenges through cross-discipline expertise, aligned with business processes, legislation and ethical standards.
• Develop and integrate solutions, applying safety processes and analysis using approved tools to build robust safety assurance cases for product certification and product release.
• Support the development of new bids and estimating for new opportunities, writing drafts for product safety.
• Support the system design authority in the implementation of system analysis techniques to develop safe and compliant radar products.
• Promote a strong safety culture, supporting senior leadership in embedding product safety across the radar sector.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a system safety engineer across the lifecycle stages of a product, from concept to disposal.
• Significant knowledge of applicable legislation, domain regulations and technical standards (e.g., HASAW, PSSR, LOLER, COSHH, REACH, BS EN 61508, 61511, 62061, DSA 01, Def Stan 00-056/00-055/00-051).
• Highly experienced Product Safety professional, ensuring essential safety procedures are followed based on knowledge of the discipline.
• Demonstrable knowledge/experience of working within a Product Safety Management System (PSMS) within a marine and complex systems environment.
• Degree qualified in Engineering/Systems/Safety or equivalent experience in a relevant safety management discipline.
• Be a recognised member of a relevant industry body (e.g., SCSC, SaRS, IET, IMechE).
• Chartered Engineer status, or willingness to work towards.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, a 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.

About the Radar Product Integrity team

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. We are advancing our next radar for the Royal Navy and global forces, driving continuous innovation with world-class export potential, keeping the UK at the forefront of defence innovation in the realm of Future Air Dominance. You’ll lead product safety and environmental engineering across the Radar sector, ensuring safe, compliant, and high-integrity solutions while driving technical leadership and cost efficiency.

Why BAE Systems?

We offer an inclusive culture that values thought, integrity, and merit, and empowers you to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and strive for inclusive recruitment processes. If you have a health condition or disability that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments. Some roles are subject to security and export control restrictions. All applicants must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard; many roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting depending on the role.

Closing Date: 25 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 early as possible.