Principal Safety & Environmental Engineer

BAE Systems; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defense sector is seeking a Principal Safety & Environmental Engineer. This role involves managing Product Safety requirements, influencing safe design, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The successful candidate will work within a collaborative environment, contributing to significant projects and benefiting from a range of flexible employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive Pension Scheme

Employee Share Plans

Flexible Health Benefits

Private Health Plans

Shopping Discounts

Annual Incentive

Qualifications

• Understanding of engineering safety management processes.
• Reasonable understanding of safety within systems engineering.
• Worked in a defence or complex systems environment.

Responsibilities

• Support derivation and management of Product Safety requirements.
• Influence development of safe design and Project Safety Case.
• Complete peer reviews and assurance tasks for Safety Case.

Skills

Engineering Safety Management

Hazard Analysis

Safety Case Report

ALARP Principles

Systems Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Enterprise Architect

Job description

Job Title: Principal Safety & Environmental Engineer

Location: Barrow-In-Furness, Portsmouth, BroadOak, Frimley, Weymouth, Plymouth or Bristol

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

What you'll be doing:

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

Work in accordance with Project Safety Management Plans

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

Support hazard identification meetings and the maintenance of the project hazard log

Complete 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

Understanding of ALARP principles and application of processes

Desirable:

Systems engineering Tools and techniques - (eg DOORS, Enterprise Architect)

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

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 System Team:

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 30th May 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.