System Safety Engineering Lead Avionics

BAE Systems.; Carnforth; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational defense and aerospace company is seeking a System Safety Engineering Lead - Avionics to ensure safety in avionics systems. The candidate will maintain safety assessment reports, review design changes, and support safety workshops. Essential skills include experience in safety practices like Hazard Analysis and understanding the 'V' lifecycle. This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working arrangements, and a range of benefits including a pension scheme and health perks.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Flexible health benefits

Employee share plans

Private health plans

Qualifications

• Experience in Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analysis.
• Ability to maintain quality under delivery pressure.
• Knowledge in safety assessment reports and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update D&C System Safety Assessment Report.
• Review design changes and generate safety statements.
• Support safety process change workshops and forums.

Skills

Experience in system safety working practices

Strong understanding of the 'V' lifecycle

Knowledge of Avionics development processes

Working knowledge of IBM Statemate

Experience using Reliability Workbench software

Job description

Job Title

System Safety Engineering Lead - Avionics

Location

Warton, also consider Prestwick - we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary

Up to £62,498 dependent 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 Safety Critical Functional Chains.
• Supporting in-service queries/incidents.
• Supporting safety process change workshops, and product safety forums.

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• Experience in system safety working practices; e.g. Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis.
• Strong understanding and experience of the 'V' lifecycle, and system engineering principles.
• Knowledge of Avionics development processes and toolsets.
• Must be willing to show integrity in the quality and accuracy of work during periods of delivery pressure.

Highly desirable

• Working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming language.
• Experience using Reliability Workbench software.

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.

Typhoon displays and control team

The team provides support to all of the LRIs within the D&C sub-system, with occasional tasks from IMRS and DASS. As such this role covers all of the different LRIs in the sub-system. The primary focus are the LRIs for which BAES develop application software, i.e. CIU, CSG and HEA, but other tasks cover both hardware aspects of these LRIs and all elements of the other D&C equipment.

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.

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: 27th 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.