Senior Safety Engineer – Test & Compliance Lead

Hackajob Ltd; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits

Learning & courses

Job summary

Leonardo UK is hiring a Lead Safety Engineer to join the Design Integrity team. The role focuses on ensuring safety governance across all activities from concept through certification, with responsibilities spanning test safety and safety of test equipment.

Based on a hybrid model, you will be onsite at Edinburgh or Newcastle for at least three days per week and will travel between sites as required, contributing to compliance, regulatory alignment, and world-class safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science with a 2:1 or higher.
• Ideally Chartered Engineer status.
• Experience applying safety tools in Electronics or Avionics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to achieve project safety requirements.
• Define product safety and environmental requirements.
• Plan and execute test programmes addressing design safety.
• Ensure test equipment safety certification and readiness for test.
• Support lifecycle readiness reviews and design certification.
• Provide independent assessment through product design reviews.
• Offer specialist product safety and environmental guidance.
• Participate in Product Safety Panels and incident data management.

Skills

Product Safety

System safety governance

Test safety

Regulatory compliance

Hazard analysis

Risk assessment

Environmental safety

Education

Chartered Engineer

2:1 engineering/science degree

Tools

Test equipment safety standards

ARP4754 knowledge

DO-178C/DO-254 familiarity

Job description

Leonardo UK is hiring a Lead Safety Engineer to join the Design Integrity team. The role focuses on ensuring safety governance across all activities from concept through certification, with responsibilities spanning test safety and safety of test equipment.

Based on a hybrid model, you will be onsite at Edinburgh or Newcastle for at least three days per week and will travel between sites as required, contributing to compliance, regulatory alignment, and world-class safety standards.