Principal Product Safety Engineer

BAE Systems; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor in the UK seeks a Principal Product Safety Engineer to lead the development and management of product safety requirements. You will influence safe design and support various safety management tasks. Essential skills include understanding engineering safety processes and familiarity with systems engineering tools. This hybrid role offers competitive benefits and relocation support for eligible candidates.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience creating justification reports.
• Understanding of safety within systems engineering.
• Previous experience in a complex systems environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Safety requirements derivation.
• Influence safe design development.
• Complete peer reviews and assurance tasks.

Skills

Understanding of engineering safety management processes

Experience with hazard analysis

Familiarity with safety engineering principles

Proficiency in systems engineering tools

Understanding of JIRA

Tools

DOORS

Enterprise Architect

JIRA

Job description

Job Title: Principal Product Safety Engineer

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

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the derivation and manage Product Safety requirements derived from Product Safety hazard and risk identification

• Working in accordance with Project Safety Management Plans

• Influencing the development of a safe design, the Project Safety Case including logical technical safety arguments and Safety Case justification reports

• Supporting hazard identification meetings and the maintenance of the project hazard log

• Completing peer reviews, checking, verification and assurance tasks to demonstrate the adequacy and robustness of the Safety Case and supporting documentation

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Understanding of engineering safety management processes, such as hazard analysis, logical safety arguments and safety case report

• Reasonable understanding of safety within systems engineering – including establishment of good engineering requirements and how they will be delivered through engineering processes

• Previous experience creating justification reports

• Understanding of Safety Engineering principles and application of processes

Desirable:

• Systems engineering Tools and techniques – (e.g. DOORS, Enterprise Architect)

• Worked in a defence or other complex systems environment involving software products

• Familiarity with JIRA

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 SSNA Combat Systems team:

To support our ongoing need to recruit the best engineering talent, BAE Systems Submarines is delighted to shortly be opening a brand-new office in Coventry. BAE Systems Submarines is experiencing a period of significant growth, and we are now actively recruiting a variety of roles and specialisms to support our ongoing submarines programs which is critical to delivering our national endeavour.

As a Principal Engineer you will provide support to the Engineering Delivery Manager in the development, delivery and maintenance of the Project Product Safety Management System and Product Safety Case to ensure Products are safe to own and legal to operate.

You will join a growing team of about 50 engineers and will work collaboratively since the early stage of a major development programme. This will provide you with the opportunity to influence the progress of different projects within the SSNA Combat System programme and to develop your career within BAE Systems. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, 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 National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 13th August 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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