Job Title: Engineering Manager – Product Safety

Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight, Great Baddow, Chelmsford or Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about options for this role.

Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience and 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 the lifecycle of a product, from concept to disposal
• Significant knowledge of applicable legislation, domain-specific regulations and technical standards (e.g. HASAW, PSSR, LOLER, COSHH, REACH, BS EN 61508, 61511, 62061, DSA 01, Def Stan 00-056/00-055/00-051)
• Highly experienced Product Safety professional ensuring essential safety procedures are followed
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working within a Product Safety Management System (PSMS) within a marine and complex systems environment; some knowledge of creating, improving or tailoring a PSMS
• Degree qualified in Engineering/Systems/Safety or equivalent
• Recognised membership 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, 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 export potential while keeping the UK at the forefront of defence innovation in Future Air Dominance.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. We value an inclusive culture, diversity of thought, integrity and merit, and empowerment to fulfil your potential. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect assessment performance, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments.

Please note that many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as nationality and place of birth can affect eligibility. All applicants must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard at minimum; higher levels of vetting may apply.

Closing Date: 25 September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet