Lead Systems Safety Engineer – Defence Aerospace

LHH; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LHH is recruiting a Lead / Principal System Safety Engineer for a defence aerospace technology programme in Southampton, with ~90% onsite work and SC clearance requirements. You will lead safety activities across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring subsystem, integrated system and aircraft-level safety assessments are aligned.

Key responsibilities include delivering safety analyses, advising engineering teams, and ensuring compliance with the Safety Management Plan while promoting a strong safety

Qualifications

• Experience delivering system safety activities across multiple engineering domains.
• Experience with ALARP and safety case development.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and present at design reviews.
• Knowledge of ARP4754B, ARP4761A, RTCA DO-254 or DO-178C is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of system safety assessments and documentation.
• Provide safety advice to engineering and design authority teams.
• Ensure safety activities follow the Safety Management Plan.
• Identify and mitigate system hazards to ALARP.
• Define safety requirements and allocate to subsystems and teams.
• Review subsystem safety analyses and align with aircraft-level safety.
• Present findings at design reviews.
• Work across lifecycle phases in a safety-critical environment.

Skills

System safety engineering

Safety case development

Stakeholder management

Lifecycle experience

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeler

IBM DOORS

Adelard ASCE

Isograph Reliability Workbench

Job description

LHH is recruiting a Lead / Principal System Safety Engineer for a defence aerospace technology programme in Southampton, with ~90% onsite work and SC clearance requirements. You will lead safety activities across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring subsystem, integrated system and aircraft-level safety assessments are aligned.

Key responsibilities include delivering safety analyses, advising engineering teams, and ensuring compliance with the Safety Management Plan while promoting a strong safety