Senior Safety Engineer

Job title: Senior Safety Engineer – Typhoon Displays and Controls

Location: Warton or Prestwick. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,683+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

Maintaining and updating the D&C System Safety Assessment Report

Reviewing design changes and generating safety statements

Reviewing Preliminary Hazard Analysis

Reviewing Sub-System Hazard Analysis changes

Reviewing Software Requirements Hazard Analysis changes

Reviewing Software Design Hazard Analysis changes

Supporting in-service queries/incidents

Supporting safety process change workshops, and product safety forums

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent with relevant experience gained on an aircraft engineering project or related field

Experience in system safety working practices; e.g. Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis

A strong understanding and experience of the ‘V’ lifecycle, and system engineering principles

Desirable:

A working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming language

Experience using Reliability Workbench software

Knowledge of Typhoon Avionics development processes and toolsets

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, 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 Typhoon Displays and Controls (D&C) Safety Team:

Within the D&C Safety team, the successful candidate will be well placed to directly influence the design, development and certification of major platform capability to Typhoon’s Core Nation and Export customers. You will support the development of software requirements, design and code hazard analysis within the department, along with drawing together evidence of implementation integrity as part of the safety assessment process. This will involve interaction with not just development teams within our own department but teams in the wider Avionics community.

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 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: 25th September 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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