Product Safety Assurance Engineer

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd; Bradley Stoke; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements

25 days' annual leave

Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual

Half day Fridays

Reservists in the Armed Forces receive

Job summary

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd is seeking a Product Safety Assurance Engineer to provide independent and proportionate assurance across products, systems and lifecycle activities within the Product Safety Engineering Team. The role requires onsite work at Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple and two days a week on-site with monthly visits to Barnstaple.

You will lead product assurance activities, review designs and evidence, and drive improvements through audits and risk management, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience in safety legislation, product assurance, quality assurance, systems engineering, product safety, verification and validation, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of assurance from concept through design, manufacture, test, acceptance, operation, and disposal.
• Awareness of safety, quality, configuration management, requirements management, and verification principles.
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of Product Assurance in ensuring compliance, quality, and risk management throughout product development.
• Ability to review technical documentation, identify assurance gaps, challenge evidence quality, and support effective non-conformance and corrective action processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear assurance reports and collaborate across engineering, project, quality, safety, and supply-chain teams.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities within a controlled engineering environment while driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Assurance activities across the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, regulatory, safety, and quality requirements from concept through to in-service support.
• Provide independent assurance of engineering outputs, reviewing designs, requirements, verification evidence, risks, and safety-related artefacts to ensure traceability, compliance, and fitness for purpose.
• Drive continuous improvement through audits, supplier assurance, risk management, defect investigation, corrective actions, and reporting assurance status, issues, and recommendations to project and governance stakeholders.

Skills

Safety legislation

Product assurance

Quality assurance

Systems engineering

Product safety

Verification and validation

Documentation review

Stakeholder management

Cooperation across teams

Job description

Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.

The Product Safety Assurance Engineer will provide independent and proportionate assurance across products, systems, and engineering lifecycle activities within the Product Safety Engineering Team.

Product Safety Assurance Engineer can be based out of either our Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple site. This role does require being onsite 2 days a week with monthly visits to our Barnstaple site.

The salary for this role is Circa £65k depending on experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Assurance activities across the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, regulatory, safety, and quality requirements from concept through to in-service support.
• Provide independent assurance of engineering outputs, reviewing designs, requirements, verification evidence, risks, and safety-related artefacts to ensure traceability, compliance, and fitness for purpose.
• Drive continuous improvement through audits, supplier assurance, risk management, defect investigation, corrective actions, and reporting assurance status, issues, and recommendations to project and governance stakeholders.

Skills

• Experience in safety legislation, product assurance, quality assurance, systems engineering, product safety, verification and validation, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of assurance from concept through design, manufacture, test, acceptance, operation, and disposal.
• Awareness of safety, quality, configuration management, requirements management, and verification principles.
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of Product Assurance in ensuring compliance, quality, and risk management throughout product development.
• Ability to review technical documentation, identify assurance gaps, challenge evidence quality, and support effective non-conformance and corrective action processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear assurance reports and collaborate across engineering, project, quality, safety, and supply-chain teams.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities within a controlled engineering environment while driving continuous improvement.

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.

We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on‑the‑ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

What we offer

• Work life balance Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Cash Plan
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources

• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking