Are you an experienced Systems Safety Engineer or Safety Manager looking for your next challenge in Defence? We are looking for a safety engineering leader who combines sound technical judgement with the experience to develop people, influence engineering decisions and help shape how safety is delivered across complex Maritime systems. If you understand that product safety starts with good engineering and are motivated to challenge established approaches and improve how things are done, we would like to hear from you.
Salary: Circa £70,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week onsite due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
Join our Safety and Reliability Engineering Department as a Maritime Safety Group Lead, leading a team of safety engineers supporting complex Maritime Defence programmes.
This is a role for someone who can bring together technical expertise, people leadership and a broader perspective on the future of safety engineering. You will build on the strengths of the existing team, bringing complementary experience and fresh thinking to help us meet changing engineering demands.
As product development accelerates and digital technologies transform the engineering environment, safety engineering must adapt too. You will help the team respond to these changes, improve how we work and ensure that safety remains integral to product design and development.
You will lead and develop a team of safety engineers while retaining a hands-on technical contribution. Working closely with design teams, systems engineers and other stakeholders, you will apply safety engineering techniques to understand hazards, assess risk and influence the design of complex products.
You will prepare and guide the development of hazard analyses, safety cases and supporting technical evidence, applying engineering judgement to determine what is needed to demonstrate that risks have been adequately addressed. You will also help integrate safety engineering into the wider systems engineering process, ensuring that safety informs design decisions rather than becoming an activity focused solely on compliance or documentation.
Alongside delivering across multiple projects, you will support the development of your team, encourage constructive challenge and identify opportunities to improve our engineering processes and practices. You will need to balance technical priorities, people development and delivery commitments while helping the function adapt to changing ways of working.
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