Principal Engineer - Product Safety

BAE Systems; Cowes; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Product Safety Engineer to provide essential support to the Technical Authority teams. In this role, you will manage hazards, conduct safety assessments, and lead safety activities within a collaborative team. Candidates must possess strong knowledge in product safety management processes and be familiar with the Life Cycle Management framework. This position comes with competitive benefits and an inclusive company culture that values diversity.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Discounted health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Must have experience with product safety management processes.
• Should possess knowledge in multiple phases of the Life Cycle Management framework.
• Knowledge of customer safety standards like DSA-02 and JSP430 required.

Responsibilities

• Support Technical Authority teams in managing hazards and risks.
• Conduct product safety assessments against complex technologies.
• Verify submissions to the Hazard Log.
• Lead product safety activities and manage junior engineers.

Skills

Knowledge of product safety management processes and techniques

Experience in multiple phases of the Life Cycle Management framework

Awareness of customer safety standards

Job description

Overview

Location: Scotstoun or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

What you\'ll be doing

• Provide support to the Technical Authority teams with the management of the hazards, risks and associated mitigations and contribute to the development of the hazard log and the maturity of information contained within.
• Responsible for product safety assessment against major subsystems or key complex technologies.
• Verify the quality of submissions to the Hazard Log.
• Organise and facilitate HAZIDs and review meetings and contribute to other HAZIDs when required.
• Take the lead on all product safety activities associated with the equipment area allocated to them, potentially delegating, managing and reviewing the work of more junior engineers carrying out aspects of the scope.

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

• Knowledge of product safety management processes and techniques.
• Experience of working in more than one phase of the Life Cycle Management (LCM) framework, with sufficient experience of the total LCM to enable a good understanding of adjacent phases and through life engineering issues.
• Awareness of customer (Ship/ System Safety) standards such as:
• DSA-02
• JSP430
• Def. Stan 00-56
• Mil Std 882E
• BS EN 61508

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.

Product Safety Team

The River Class Destroyer project is part of an \'unprecedented fleet renewal\' by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). As part of this project, you will be joining a small team of 11 Product Safety practitioners located across two sites. You may be working with others on a large complex programme or individually for one or many smaller programmes.

Accountability

Accountability for the safety of the design solution rests with the Technical Authority. Your role is to support the Technical Authority in their decision making, create a plan of activities that will ensure that by working within the Product safety management framework, risks have been identified systematically and managed so far as is reasonable practicable. You will become exposed to a wide range of technical disciplines, be able to follow technical argument and be able to influence the integrity of the final product.

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.