Overview

Engineering Manager – Product Safety

Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight, Great Baddow, Chelmsford or Portsmouth Broad Oak. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements are available – please speak to your recruiter about options for this role. Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and delivering Product Safety and Environmental Engineering activities across radar programmes and projects
• Managing and integrating the Product Safety & Environmental engineering team, overseeing resources, work packages, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners
• Ensuring delivery of safety and environmental commitments and deliverables on cost, quality, schedule, and specification
• Resolving complex safety challenges through cross-discipline expertise, aligned with business processes, legislation, and ethical standards
• Developing and integrating solutions, applying safety processes and analysis using approved tools to build robust safety assurance cases for product certification and product release
• Supporting the development of new bids and estimating for new opportunities, writing drafts for product safety
• Supporting the system design authority in implementation of system analysis techniques to develop safe and compliant radar products
• Promoting a strong safety culture, supporting senior leadership in promoting and embedding product safety across the radar sector

Your skills and experiences

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a system safety engineer across lifecycle stages of a product (concept to disposal)
• Significant knowledge of applicable legislation, domain regulations and technical standards (e.g., HASAW, PSSR, LOLER, COSHH, REACH, BS EN 61508, 61511, 62061, DSA 01, Def Stan 00-056, Def Stan 00-055, Def Stan 00-051)
• Highly experienced Product Safety professional ensuring essential safety procedures are followed within own discipline
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working within a Product Safety Management System (PSMS) in a marine/complex systems environment; some knowledge of tailoring a PSMS
• Degree qualified in Engineering/Systems/Safety or equivalent in safety management
• Recognised member of a relevant industry body (e.g., SCSC, SaRS, IET, IMechE); Chartered Engineer status or willingness to work towards

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and 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 Radar Product Integrity team

Join us in shaping the future of radar technology. We are advancing our next-generation radar for the Royal Navy and global forces, driving continuous innovation with world-class export potential, keeping the UK at the forefront of defence innovation in the realm of Future Air Dominance.

Why BAE Systems?

We provide an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and strive for inclusive recruitment. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect performance in some assessments, please discuss reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.

Please note: many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions. Applicants must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard at minimum; higher levels of vetting may require longer UK residency for security checks.

Closing Date: 25 September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please apply early if interested.