Lead Product Safety Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Blackburn; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Lead Product Safety Engineer to evaluate and ensure the safety of aircraft designs. This role involves generating safety engineering outputs, leading project teams, and interacting with various stakeholders. Candidates should have a degree in a STEM subject, essential safety engineering experience, and team leadership skills. A competitive salary and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Safety Engineering experience is essential.
• Team leadership experience is also essential.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate aircraft safety in support of certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle.
• Generate and review safety outputs to industry standards.
• Ensure certification evidence achieves product design safety.

Skills

Safety Engineering experience in a safety critical industry

Safety/Project Team Leader experience

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

Education

Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

Overview

Job title: Lead Product Safety Engineer

Location: Warton – hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Salary: £54,793 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Evaluation of aircraft and system / sub-system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle
• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft, System and Sub-System Safety Engineering outputs to industry safety standards
• Ensuring 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 the proposed remedial / recovery action in mitigating product safety risk / safety performance degradation
• Liaising with Customers (internal and external) to agree delivery timescales
• Allocation of tasking to suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team; will have 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
• Liaising 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 also offers employee share plans, an extensive 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 Platform Integration Safety 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, making sure they are not only safe and sustainable, but also ready to take on tomorrow’s challenges. Throughout your career, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple different projects ranging from shaping the world’s next sixth- fighter jet, to pushing the boundaries of today’s aircraft with AI, autonomy and digital engineering, to supporting global customers in keeping their fleets at peak performance.

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

We don’t just deliver capability, we help define the safety, security and environmental standards that will guide the aerospace industry for decades to come. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or 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 prior security clearances you may have, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as 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 service in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 23 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.

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