System Safety Team Leader

Job Description

Job Title: System Safety Team Leader

Location: Warton – 3-4 days onsite per week

Salary: £59,491

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

As System Safety Team Leader within the Typhoon D&C System Safety Team, you will guide safety activities across a complex, high-profile avionics environment, helping to ensure the continued safe development and operation of Typhoon capability. Working across software, hardware and system-level safety, you will support hazard analysis, safety assessment evidence and in-service safety investigations for key Line Replaceable Items, including cockpit interface, symbol generation and helmet equipment technologies.

This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with development teams, specialist safety colleagues, suppliers, Eurofighter, NETMA and customer-facing teams. You will contribute to innovative defence engineering, influence safety-critical outcomes and develop your leadership, technical and stakeholder skills within BAE Systems.

Core duties:

• Oversee product safety activities across the Typhoon D&C sub-system, ensuring aligned safety delivery
• Maintain and update the D&C System Safety Assessment Report with clear supporting evidence
• Review design changes, hazard assessments and safety-critical functional chains to support safe implementation
• Assess software requirements, design and code hazard evaluation changes across key avionics equipment
• Coordinate in-service safety queries and incidents, coordinating investigations, responses and stakeholder communication

Essential Skills:

• STEM degree or equivalent practical experience within aircraft engineering projects or closely related technical environments
• Demonstratable system safety experience, including Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, FTA, FMECA, and criticality assessments
• Considerable understanding of the ‘V’ lifecycle, systems engineering values, and structured development processes
• Working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming for safety-critical systems or engineering applications
• Practical experience using Reliability Workbench to support reliability modelling, assessment, and safety evaluation

The System Safety Team:

Supporting critical Typhoon avionics capability, this function leads product safety activities across advanced defence systems and software integration programmes. Working closely with international partners, suppliers and specialist engineering teams, it helps deliver safe, reliable and innovative solutions that support ongoing aircraft capability development and operational performance.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 12th June 2026

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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