Principal Engineer – Product Safety

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Full time
Location: Lossiemouth
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Job offered by: BAE Systems
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Principal Engineer – Product Safety Engineering

A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible. Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth or Manchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55,000

What you’ll be doing:

Undertake functional design and/or provide qualification and evidence for acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.

Obtain confirmation beyond reasonable doubt by review, surveillance and audit that those assumptions, underpinning engineering data, analysis methodologies, and interpretation of results have been validated.

Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders as required ensuring that their requirements are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered and incorporated where appropriate and agreed.

Undertake technical reviews, verifies and signs engineering designs

Producing written function safety justifications

Managing the production of a functional Safety Case to a defined schedule, reporting to a Safety Engineering Manager

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Chartered Engineer or working toward chartership or equivalent experience

Experienced in Industrial Controls Systems

TUV Functional Safety Expert

Experienced on both software and hardware

IEC 61508 or IEC 61511

Desirable:

Strong knowledge of Cyber Safety

Understanding of Defence Standards

Previous experience with the Defence Industry (E.g MoD)

Submarine Engineering experience (Naval or Industry)

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 Product Safety Team:

As part of the Product Safety Team working in 2 areas of Delivery Process and Governance Process you will be supporting team and we move to the next critical step of the project to help deliver product safety ready for the build phase. You will be exposed to new technologies throughout the build process whilst modifying existing technologies to accommodate todays build. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting 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, 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.

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 nationalities 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 as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date:

15th January 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.

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