Overview

Job title: Lead Product Safety Engineer

Location: Warton – hybrid and flexible working arrangements available. Salary: £54,793 depending on experience.

Closing Date: 23 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation of aircraft and system / sub-system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle.
• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft, System and Sub-System Safety Engineering outputs to industry safety standards.
• Ensuring that Certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety with respect to Design Airworthiness requirements and identified hazards.
• Assess customer deviations from the design for adverse impact on product integrity and identify recovery routes (where necessary).
• Support the assessment of Risk Assessments, ensuring suitable justification exists for action and the adequacy of the proposed remedial / recovery action in mitigating product safety risk / safety performance degradation.
• Liaising with Customers (internal and external) to agree delivery timescales.
• Allocation of tasking to suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team and taking on people responsibilities (career development plans, aspirations, etc.).
• Provide leadership and guidance to the team, ensuring alignment of daily activities with project goals, maintaining regular dialogue with stakeholders and accurate reporting for your area of responsibility.
• Liaising with the senior engineering population to ensure availability of suitably qualified and experienced individuals within the team.

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

• A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience.
• Safety Engineering experience in a safety-critical industry.
• Safety/Project Team Leader experience.

Desirable:

• Engineering integration role within any lifecycle/product area.
• Requirements Engineering, Configuration and Data Management.
• Qualification and Certification
• Chartership/working towards Model Based Systems Engineering, Agile / Scrum Development.

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme.
• 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 Platform Integration Safety Team

The Platform Integration Safety Team is where safety, innovation and future air power come together. As a Lead Product Safety Engineer, you will work on one of the many platforms BAE Systems Air has to offer, making sure they are not only safe and sustainable, but also ready to take on tomorrow’s challenges. Throughout your career, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple different projects ranging from shaping the world’s next sixth- fighter jet, to pushing the boundaries of today’s aircraft with AI, autonomy and digital engineering, to supporting global customers in keeping their fleets at peak performance.

We don’t just deliver capability, we help define the safety, security and environmental standards that will guide the aerospace industry for decades to come. 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 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 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 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 at a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Many roles also require higher levels of Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous UK residence, depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

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