Principal Engineer Safety & Environmental Engineering (Control Damage Hazards)

Overview

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements; please speak to your recruiter about options for this role.

Salary: Competitive

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership as a subject matter expert in safety engineering
• Mentor and develop engineers, guiding safety analysis and influencing design decisions
• Analyse and influence nuclear submarine design using safety engineering techniques, focusing on major hazards (fires, explosions including DSEAR, steam release)
• Apply engineering judgement to justify design safety and compliance
• Interface with regulators, clients within the MOD and internal stakeholders
• Develop and review safety case documentation to substantiate design safety

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree qualified in a relevant STEM discipline or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills with a practical and pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Proven ability to produce clear, structured safety case arguments and supporting technical documentation for complex systems
• Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate hazards in complex engineering environments

Desirable

Experience in highly regulated industries (nuclear, oil and gas, maritime, aerospace)

• Experience in DSEAR and fire risk assessments, including hazard identification and analysis
• Familiarity with hazard analysis techniques (e.g. HAZOP, FMEA, Fault and Event Tree Analysis)

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Safety & Environmental team

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team tasked with exposure to wider strategic initiatives. You will be working with six people from principals to apprentices, liaising with operational managers, heads of departments as well as Health & Safety teams. This role offers exposure to the Wider Control Damage Hazards team while providing opportunities for professional growth within the function. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to eligibility criteria.

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 of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to ensure 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.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as nationality, prior nationalities, or place of birth can restrict eligible roles. All applicants must achieve at minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically with 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required, to allow for meaningful security checks.

Closing Date: 16 February 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.