Engineering Manager - Product Safety

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

Job summary

A leading defense company is seeking an Engineering Manager – Product Safety to lead product safety and environmental engineering for radar programs. The role includes managing a team, delivering safety commitments, and promoting a strong safety culture. Preferred candidates will have at least 5 years of experience and a degree in Engineering. Competitive salary up to £70,000 and hybrid working arrangements available.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience as a system safety engineer.
• Experience working within a Product Safety Management System.
• Recognized member of a relevant industry body.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities.
• Manage the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team.
• Ensure delivery of safety and environmental commitments.

Skills

System safety engineering

Product Safety professional

Knowledge of legislation and technical standards

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 a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience and bonus scheme

Responsibilities

• Leading and delivering Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities across radar programmes and projects.
• Managing and integrating the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team, overseeing resources, work packages, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Ensuring delivery of safety and environmental commitments and deliverables on cost, quality, schedule, and specification.
• Resolving complex safety challenges through cross-discipline expertise, aligned with business processes, legislation, and ethical standards.
• Developing and integrating 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.
• Supporting the system design authority in the implementation of system analysis techniques, to develop safe and compliant radar products.
• Promoting a strong safety culture, supporting senior leadership in promoting and embedding product safety across the radar sector.

Qualifications and Experience

• Holds a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a system safety engineer working across the lifecycle stages of a product, from concept to disposal.
• Significant knowledge of applicable legislation, domain-specific regulations and technical standards (e.g. HASAW, PSSR, LOLER, COSHH, REACH, BS EN 61508, BS EN 61511, BS EN 62061, DSA 01, Def Stan 00-056, Def Stan 00-055, Def Stan 00-051, etc.).
• Highly experienced Product Safety professional, ensuring essential safety procedures are followed based on knowledge of own discipline.
• Demonstrable knowledge and 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-wide body (e.g. SCSC, SaRS, IET, IMechE, etc.).
• Chartered Engineer status, or willingness to work towards it.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, a wide 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 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. As the Engineering Manager – Product Safety you’ll be leading 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?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values thought, integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

Equity, Diversity and Accessibility

We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a 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 security and export control restrictions.

These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any 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 Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date

Closing Date: 25 September 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.