Senior Safety Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to join its Typhoon Displays and Controls team in the UK. In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining safety assessments, reviewing design changes, and supporting safety process changes. Candidates should have a degree in a STEM subject and experience in safety practices. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health benefits

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent with relevant experience on an aircraft engineering project.
• Experience in system safety working practices like Hazard Analysis and Safety Cases.
• Strong understanding of the ‘V’ lifecycle and system engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating the D&C System Safety Assessment Report.
• Reviewing design changes and generating safety statements.
• Supporting safety process change workshops and product safety forums.

Skills

System safety working practices

Hazard Analysis

Safety Cases

Fault Tree Analysis

V lifecycle understanding

Education

Degree in a STEM subject

Tools

IBM Statemate

Reliability Workbench

Job description

Job Description

Job title: Senior Safety Engineer – Typhoon Displays and Controls

Location: Warton or Prestwick. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,683+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Maintaining and updating the D&C System Safety Assessment Report
• Reviewing design changes and generating safety statements
• Reviewing Preliminary Hazard Analysis
• Reviewing Sub-System Hazard Analysis changes
• Reviewing Software Requirements Hazard Analysis changes
• Reviewing Software Design Hazard Analysis changes
• Supporting in-service queries/incidents
• Supporting safety process change workshops, and product safety forums

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

• A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent with relevant experience gained on an aircraft engineering project or related field
• Experience in system safety working practices; e.g. Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis
• A strong understanding and experience of the ‘V’ lifecycle, and system engineering principles

Desirable:

• A working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming
• Experience using Reliability Workbench software
• Knowledge of Typhoon Avionics development processes and toolsets

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 Typhoon Displays and Controls (D&C) Safety Team

Within the D&C Safety team, the successful candidate will be well placed to directly influence the design, development and certification of major platform capability to Typhoon’s Core Nation and Export customers. You will support the development of software requirements, design and code hazard analysis within the department, along with drawing together evidence of implementation integrity as part of the safety assessment process. This will involve interaction with not just development teams within our own department but teams in the wider Avionics community.

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 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 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 , any 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 Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date

Closing Date: 18th September 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.

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