Senior Engineer – Product Safety

TieTalent; Christchurch; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave allowance

Company contributed Share Incentive Plan

Flexible working

Employee assistance programme

Cycle2work scheme

Employee discounts

Annual incentive

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Engineer – Product Safety to join their Integrated Development Team. You will focus on ensuring product safety tasks across submarine systems, requiring expertise in safety analysis techniques. This full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements and comprehensive benefits, including professional chartership support and a competitive pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Experience with internationally recognized safety analysis techniques.
• Passion for product safety and engineering.
• Ability to influence stakeholders for product safety benefits.
• Ability to review safety cases and provide constructive feedback.
• Auditing safety management systems and sharing findings.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver submarine systems addressing product safety.
• Support hazard identification and analysis studies.
• Generate safety reports and manage safety management systems.
• Assist with or generate safety reports.
• Ensure the team operates within the Safety Management System.
• Liaise with other teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team.

Skills

Product Safety Requirements identification and capture

Product Safety hazard identification and analysis

Delivery of Product Safety cases

Review and appraisal of Product Safety cases

Auditing Product Safety management systems

Safety audits

Tools

ZHA

HAZOP

ASM

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Product Safety

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth or Manchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date: 23rd June 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.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of an Integrated Development Team, established to develop and deliver submarine systems / capability
• Specifically focusing on ensuring that Product Safety tasking and activities are completed across multiple systems in support of project milestones through all stages of Engineering Life Cycle Management
• Supporting Hazard Identification and Analysis studies
• Assisting with or generating safety reports
• Ensuring the Integrated Development Team operates within the project Safety Management System
• Liaising with other Integrated Development Teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• Product Safety Requirements identification and capture
• Product Safety hazard identification and analysis using internationally recognised techniques such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Functional Safety Analysis (FSA), Zonal Hazard Analysis (ZHA), Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), Accident Sequence Modelling (ASM)
• Delivery of Product Safety cases and management systems
• Review and appraisal of Product Safety cases, influencing others with constructive feedback
• Auditing Product Safety management systems, learning, sharing and influencing others with constructive feedback

Desirable

• Working towards professional chartership
• An accomplished engineer with a passion for “things Product Safety”
• Ability to influence other stakeholders, internal and external to the role to achieve Product Safety benefits

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Safety & Environmental Team

Supporting our Dreadnought, Astute and Submarine Nuclear Replacement (SSNR) submarines programmes in the delivery of Safety Management System arrangements and Safety Cases, you will be working with various teams across the submarines network. 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 at 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

23rd June 2025

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet