Principal Engineer – Product Safety

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Product Safety

Location: UK Wide – (Primary sites – Scotstoun, Broad Oak, Portsmouth, Frimley and Filton are also alternatives). We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £70,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Planning, execution and reporting or product safety activities

Process facilitation and specialist process guidance for HazID, analysis and risk management

Defining the safety argument and articulation of the safety case

Management of the hazard log, information set and assurance evidence

Specific analysis in support of the risk assessment

Taking responsibility for product safety assessment against major subsystems or key complex technologies

Your Skills and Experiences

Essential:

Practitioner knowledge and hands on experience of the HazID processes e.g. Functional Failure Analysis, hazard assessment and risk management.

Experience leading a technical team

Hands on experience creating a safety argument for a complex product

Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to liaise with stakeholders at various levels alongside presentation and facilitation skills

Applicants should ideally be Degree qualified or have equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline

Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution

Desirable:

A background within a Naval/Maritime environment or similar highly regulated industry

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 Product Safety Team:

The Product Safety team is a group of 40 practitioners deployed across a wide range of programmes. You might be working in a team on a large complex programme or individually for one or many smaller programmes

Accountability for the safety of the design solution rests with the Technical Authority. Your role is to support the Technical Authority in their decision making, create a plan of activities that will ensure that by working within the Product safety management framework, risks have been identified systematically and managed so far as is reasonably practicable. You will become exposed to a wide range of technical disciplines, be able to follow technical argument and be able to influence the integrity of the final product.

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: 3rd September 2025. Interviews will take place w/c 15th September.

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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