Weapons, Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives Safety Engineer in Epsom

Are you a safety engineer looking to develop specialist experience in weapons, ordnance, munitions and explosives? Do you want to work across high-hazard systems, trials, integration and through-life activities while building your capability with experienced specialists? We’re expanding our defence WOME safety capability. Join us and support safety engineering and assurance across conventional and novel technologies, from acquisition and platform integration through trials, qualification, operation and disposal.

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organisation delivering complex and critical programmes across defence, aerospace, nuclear and other highly regulated sectors. Join our established Safety & Environmental Assurance community; knowledge sharing and collaboration are at the heart of what we do.

You’ll benefit from:

• Formal technical assurance, peer review and access to experienced WOME safety specialists.
• Domain Communities of Interest and professional networks.
• Regular team meetings, knowledge-sharing events and informal mentoring.
• Career development support aligned wherever possible to your experience, interests and goals.

We aim to align assignments with your skills, interests and career goals while balancing client and business needs. We welcome WOME specialists and safety practitioners from industry, MOD and the Armed Forces, including those transferring from air, land or maritime domains and those returning after a career break.

Assignments could include:

• Safety engineering and assurance across weapon, munition, explosives, system and integrated-platform levels.
• Safety assessment and assurance of conventional and novel weapon integration, including Directed Energy Weapons, across land, air and maritime platforms.
• Safety support to trials, test and evaluation, verification and validation, qualification and introduction into service.
• Explosives safety and ordnance assurance covering storage, transport, handling, operation, maintenance, disposal and other through-life activities.

Your role

You will deliver proportionate WOME safety engineering and assurance across conventional, novel and complex defence projects. Working with experienced specialists, you will develop clear safety arguments and evidence, support the identification and management of hazards and risks, and help clients make informed decisions across the capability lifecycle. Support the development and maintenance of proportionate WOME safety cases, safety assessments, safety management plans and supporting evidence. Identify, assess and manage hazards and risks across weapon, munition, explosives, system and platform boundaries, including integration and through-life activities. Create and maintain hazard logs, derive and manage safety requirements, and support the demonstration that risks are reduced to a tolerable level. Develop clear safety arguments and manage evidence supporting acquisition, trials, qualification, acceptance, introduction into service and continued operation. Apply relevant legislation, regulations, standards and good practice to WOME safety activities. Produce high-quality technical reports and contribute to safety working groups, hazard reviews, assurance reviews and multidisciplinary engineering decisions. Work effectively with clients, operators, designers, delivery partners, suppliers, trials organisations and assurance authorities.

About you

Essential experience and attributes:

• Relevant practical experience delivering WOME safety engineering, explosives safety, ordnance assurance or a closely related safety discipline in a defence environment, including contributing to safety cases, safety assessments, hazard logs, safety management plans or other structured hazard- and risk-management activities.
• An understanding of systems engineering and how safety evidence supports decisions across the capability lifecycle, with the ability to apply proportionate technical judgement and communicate safety arguments, risks and recommendations clearly to specialists and non-specialists.
• A collaborative, curious and delivery-focused approach, with the confidence to ask questions and seek support when needed.
• A relevant technical qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience from the Armed Forces, MOD or industry.

Desirable experience:

• Experience applying safety-case, hazard-analysis or assurance techniques such as Claims, Arguments and Evidence, Goal Structuring Notation, ALARP demonstration, HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, ETA or Bow Tie analysis.
• Knowledge of current Defence Safety Authority OME Regulations, related Defence Codes of Practice and relevant legislative requirements, including the Explosives Regulations 2014 and the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations.
• Knowledge of relevant general and WOME-related Defence Standards, NATO Standardization Agreements, Allied Ordnance Publications and United States Military Standards, including Def Stan 00-056, 00-035, 00-101, 07-085, 59-114 and 59-411.
• Experience in WOME safety management, trials safety, qualification, storage, transport, handling, operation, maintenance or disposal.
• Experience using digital safety, requirements or risk-management tools.
• Professional registration or progress towards IEng or CEng, and membership of a relevant institution such as IExpE, IET, SaRS, IMechE or RAeS.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.