Sector Chief Safety Engineer (AAR)

Leonardo; Basildon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo is seeking a Sector Chief Safety Engineer to lead safety management for advanced radar systems. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with safety regulations and manage a team to deliver high-performance products. This role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to handle complex engineering challenges while promoting safety culture within the organization. Candidates should have experience in safety management and possess relevant engineering qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing complex systems for safety and environmental impacts.
• Ability to obtain SC security clearance and work within UKEO and US ITAR.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Engineering Management for safety activities in the sector.
• Provide independent safety assessments throughout Product Design Reviews.
• Ensure compliance with military and/or civil regulations.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Safety Management

Project Management

Education

Honours degree in Engineering or Science

Tools

Hazard Log Management

Fault Tree Analysis

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Basildon, United Kingdom

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29.06.2025

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The Opportunity

Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for a Sector Chief Safety Engineer, with experience of airborne design assurance using ARP4754A/4761, RTCA DO-254, and/or DO-178C. You will lead a team of system safety professionals to deliver complex products, in conjunction with Systems Engineering, that are safe, secure and highly reliable. The position is within Advanced AESA Radar, one of the three delivery sectors within Leonardo’s Radar and Advanced Targeting Systems (RATS) Line of Business (LoB).

The target application areas in the sector include Mission Management Systems, Airborne Fire Control Radar and a range of modular Surveillance Radar products, deployed on a wide range of crewed and uncrewed airborne systems, addressing specific challenges such as flight certification of DO-365/366 Detect and Avoid Systems.

You will be responsible, through your team, for managing the Product Safety and Environmental Impact of the Sector’s product portfolio, via implementation of the Leonardo Electronics UK Business Unit’s Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System (PSEIMS). This includes responsibility for the monitoring and development of the capability (SQEP) of your team, accountable to the Head of Product Safety for the Line of Business.

Your accountabilities will include delivery of safety programmes within the Sector to cost and schedule, supporting the Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) throughout the Product Lifecycle, including business winning. The key accountability is ensuring that processes, plans and people are sufficient to achieve Military and/or Civil Type certification, while applying innovative technologies such as AI/ML, Autonomy, Multicore processors, IMA, MBSE and Agile methods

The Sector Chief Safety Engineer also forms part of the independent assurance function, dependent on experience achieving delegated board signatory for Product Safety, supporting Certificates of Design (CoD) and Declarations of Design and Performance (DDPs).

The RATS LoB is located in Edinburgh and Newcastle and occasional travel will be requested to other locations within the UK and Internationally.

You will work closely with supportive, talented and innovative engineers across the Engineering delivery disciplines, contributing to the continual improvement of the Engineering Capability of the Leonardo Electronics UK Business Unit, whilst building strong relationships with our customers and partners.

What you will do

Day to day, you will be accountable to the Head of Product Safety for RATS, working closely with Head of Engineering Products within the Sector, to satisfy the regulatory requirements of airborne systems, including Mission Critical and Flight Safety Involved systems; often with demanding Product Security requirements.

You will

• Lead the Engineering Management and delivery of System and Product safety activities across the sector, working closely with Systems Engineering.
• Provide independent Safety Management Specialist input to adjacent sectors within the LoB.
• Provide independent assessment of safety through Product Design Reviews.
• Participate in Product Safety Panels as a specialist advisor in the management and resolution of Product Safety and Product Environmental incidents.
• Ensure that the data associated with Sector Product Safety incidents in the Company corrective action management system is correct and up to date.
• Provide the focus for the provision of independent specialist guidance and information on best practices, standards and legislation.
• Promote the specialism and Safety Culture within the business.
• Participate in internal and external standards working groups and with academic partners covering Development Standards and Acceptable Means of Compliance using various established and emerging standards, such as:SAE AS6983, ARP4754, ARP4761;AMC20-152A; AMC20-193;RTCA DO-254, DO-178C, DO-326A/356A, DO-365C, DO-366A.
• Promote continual improvement of the Product Safety and Environmental Impact Management System.

What we are looking for

You really must have:

• Demonstrable and relevant experience analysing complex systems from a Product Safety and Product Environmental Impact Management perspective (as well as analysing the impact of contribution(s) from a Product Security perspective) with the ability to scope and deliver high quality outputs to time and cost against developed programmes of work.
• Demonstrable and relevant experience of being able to define and implement an appropriate safety strategy in order deliver the safety programme of activities efficiently and effectively within in a complex system with multi-Stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain delegated board signatory for Product Safety.
• Demonstrable experience using a range of safety tools and techniques, to provide specialist advice and guidance on complex projects within an Electronics or Avionics discipline.
• e.g. Hazard Log Management; Hazard Identification; Functional Failure Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Risk Assessment and ALARP justifications;
• Experience of one or more of the following:Accepted certification of a software product to RTCA/DO-178C Level C through all Certification Reviews (SOIs).Accepted certification of a firmware product to RTCA/DO-254 Level C through all Certification Reviews (SOIs).Functional decomposition and assignment to item level of DALs under the auspices of SAE ARP 4754.Equivalent experience from an adjacent sector.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coach and develop others.
• Ability to obtain SC security clearance and work within UKEO and US ITAR TAA restrictions.
• Experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities to achieve Product safety and/or Product security certification in a regulated environment.
• Capability to identify and direct improvements to complex technical and business processes, judging the balance between the cost and impact of change and its resulting benefits.
• The ability to understand complex engineering processes and the inter-dependency of the process components
• A passion for promoting and improving the safety and security of complex systems
• It would be nice, but not essential, if you had:
• Chartered Engineer status
• A 2:1 or higher in a relevant engineering or science-based honours degree.
• Awareness of Information Security.
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following:Current generation SRAM FPGAs and Firmware Design Methods, Tools and Languages.Current generation Model Driven Engineering with auto-coding and applicable software standards for airborne or adjacent hi-reliability sectors.Functional domain architectures for partitioning complex systems implementing multiple mutually non-interfering functions.
• Experience with any of the following tools:Microsoft Office Tools;SAP;Siemens Teamcenter;Cameo System Modeller;IBM DOORS.