Lead Product Safety Engineer

BAE Systems; Lytham St Annes; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Safety Engineer to ensure the safety and integrity of aircraft systems. You will evaluate designs, oversee safety engineering processes, and lead a team while liaising with various stakeholders. This hybrid role requires a degree in a STEM field and significant experience in safety engineering. Attractive benefits including a pension scheme and employee share plans are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in safety critical industry roles ensures understanding of product design safety.
• Leadership experience is essential for managing team dynamics and project goals.
• Proficiency in Risk Assessments and Safety Engineering outputs is critical.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate aircraft and system design safety for platform safety certification.
• Generate and review Safety Engineering outputs to industry standards.
• Liaise with customers to agree on delivery timescales.

Skills

Safety Engineering experience in a safety critical industry

Safety/Project Team Leader experience

A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience

Education

Degree in a STEM subject

Job description

Job Title: Lead Product Safety Engineer

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

Salary: £56,766+ 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 wrt 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 generation of 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 and 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-generation 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. 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.

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 diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. 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.

Closing Date: 29th January 2026

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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