Senior Engineer - Product Safety

BAE Systems; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and aerospace company in the UK is seeking a Senior Engineer – Product Safety to join its Integrated Development Team. This role involves ensuring that product safety tasks are completed throughout the engineering life cycle. Key responsibilities include supporting safety analysis and liaising with teams. Essential qualifications include experience in safety hazard identification and product safety case management. The company offers competitive benefits including a pension scheme, employee share plans, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Essential experience with various product safety techniques like Fault Tree Analysis and HAZOP.
• Desirable to be working towards professional chartership in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of an Integrated Development Team focused on submarine systems.
• Ensure Product Safety tasking is completed through all stages of Engineering Life Cycle Management.
• Support Hazard Identification and Analysis studies.

Skills

Product Safety Requirements identification and capture

Product Safety hazard identification and analysis

Delivery of Product Safety cases and management systems

Review and appraisal of Product Safety cases

Auditing Product Safety management systems

Job description

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

What you’ll be doing

• 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

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 Safety and 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 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

23rd January 2026

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.