Job Title: Engineering Manager – Product Safety

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

Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience and bonus scheme

Overview

As the Engineering Manager – Product Safety, you’ll lead product safety and environmental engineering across the Radar sector, ensuring safe, compliant, and high-integrity solutions while driving technical leadership and cost efficiency. You’ll help shape the future of radar technology within the Royal Navy and global forces, supporting the development of next-generation radar with strong export potential.

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 release
• Supporting the development of new bids and estimating for new opportunities, writing drafts for product safety
• Supporting the system design authority in the implementation of system analysis techniques to develop safe and compliant radar products
• Promoting a strong safety culture and supporting senior leadership in 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, BS EN 61511, BS EN 62061, DSA 01, Def Stan 00-056/00-055/00-051, etc.)
• Experience as a Product Safety professional ensuring essential safety procedures are followed
• Experience within a Product Safety Management System (PSMS) in a marine and complex systems environment; some knowledge of tailoring a PSMS
• Degree qualified in Engineering/Systems/Safety or equivalent safety management discipline
• 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 and a range of flexible health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, shopping discounts, and an annual incentive where applicable.

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?

This is a place where you can make a real difference. We value an inclusive culture and merit-based progression. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect performance in assessment types, please discuss reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.

Please note that many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions. All applicants must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with some roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.

Closing Date: 25th September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible.