Principal Product Safety Engineer

Location: Coventry - we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the derivation and manage Product Safety requirements derived from Product Safety hazard and risk identification.
• Working in accordance with Project Safety Management Plans.
• Influencing the development of a safe design, the Project Safety Case including logical technical safety arguments and Safety Case justification reports.
• Supporting hazard identification meetings and the maintenance of the project hazard log.
• Completing peer reviews, checking, verification and assurance tasks to demonstrate the adequacy and robustness of the Safety Case and supporting documentation.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Understanding of engineering safety management processes, such as hazard analysis, logical safety arguments and safety case report.
• Reasonable understanding of safety within systems engineering - including establishment of good engineering requirements and how they will be delivered through engineering processes.
• Previous experience creating justification reports.
• Understanding of Safety Engineering principles and application of processes.

Desirable:

• Systems engineering Tools and techniques - (e.g. DOORS, Enterprise Architect).
• Worked in a defence or other complex systems environment involving software products.
• Familiarity with JIRA.

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 SSNA Combat System team:

To support our ongoing need to recruit the best engineering talent, BAE Systems Submarines is delighted to shortly be opening a brand-new office in Coventry. BAE Systems Submarines is experiencing a period of significant growth, and we are now actively recruiting a variety of roles and specialisms to support our ongoing submarines programs which is critical to delivering our national endeavour.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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.

Closing Date: 18th April 2025. 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.