Engineering Manager - Product Safety

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Job summary

A leading defence technology firm is seeking an Engineering Manager for Product Safety to lead safety engineering across the Radar sector. This role involves managing a team, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and resolving complex safety challenges. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in safety engineering and a degree in Engineering. The position offers flexible working arrangements and a competitive salary of up to £70,000.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a system safety engineer.
• Significant knowledge of applicable legislation and technical standards.
• Chartered Engineer status, or willingness to work towards it.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

System safety engineering

Knowledge of applicable legislation

Product safety management

Cross-discipline expertise

Communication skills

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 options for this role. Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience, plus bonus scheme.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities across radar programmes and projects.
• Manage and integrate the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team, oversee 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, including 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.

Your skills and experiences

• 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 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 the 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 body (e.g., SCSC, SaRS, IET, IMechE, etc.).
• Chartered Engineer status, or willingness to work towards it.

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme and employee share plans.
• Flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts; annual incentive may be available.

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 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?

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.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a condition or health issue 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, place of birth, or previous nationalities can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform. All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard at minimum. Higher levels of Security Vetting may be required depending on the role.

Closing Date

Closing Date: 25 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. If you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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