Systems Safety Engineer

About The Role:

As a Safety Engineer, you will report to the Chief Engineer and will be at the forefront of unmanned air systems development in the UK. We seek a highly motivated engineer to oversee the development and implementation of safety processes for UAS systems. In this role you will drive the integration of safety requirements into engineering designs, ensure compliance with regulatory standards and industry best practices, assess hazards, develop safety cases, and maintain product integrity throughout the lifecycle.

You will also collaborate with cross‑functional teams to promote a strong safety culture, providing guidance, training, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. Ability to hold Security Clearance – 5 years residence in the UK.

• Evaluation of aircraft and system/sub‑system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle.
• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft, System and Sub‑System System Safety Engineering tasks.
• Decomposition of safety requirements at all relevant product levels (Weapon Platform, System, Sub‑System, Equipment).
• Preparing Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports (ZHAs).
• Preparing Preliminary Hazard List (PHL) and Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA).
• Performing System / Sub‑System Hazard Analysis.
• Validating supplier safety analysis/documentation.
• Producing System / Sub‑System safety assessment reports, including safety analysis (fault tree analysis, etc.).
• Ensuring that certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety with respect to Design Airworthiness requirements and identified hazards.
• Assessing customer deviations from the design for adverse impact on product integrity and identifying recovery routes where necessary.
• Supporting project teams, support and service engineering organisations with the generation of Risk Assessments, ensuring suitable justification exists for action and the adequacy of the proposed remedial/recovery actions in mitigating product safety risk/safety performance degradation.
• Managing the communication of residual risk through the appropriate process.
• Managing and reporting any outstanding product integrity actions/issues through to closure.

• Establishing and delivering engineering activities using systems integration and systems engineering techniques.
• Sustaining the initial integrity of Malloy products through production challenge and review of design, certification and assurance evidence (including product data requirements) in line with market legislation and regulatory obligations.
• Sustaining Malloy Engineering regarding product integrity through development/improvement of existing processes and operations, challenging the norm, promoting efficiency and competitiveness while ensuring continuous delivery.
• Validating and challenging the initial evidence through professional judgment and constructive feedback, performing audit and assurance activities, including involvement in design and phase review assessments where appropriate.
• Recovering the integrity of Malloy products through investigation, root cause analysis, technical instruction (using technical writing skills) and advising of potential design change.
• Exploiting learning across Air and other BAE Systems units, customers and suppliers using appropriate alerting, lessons learned and promotional processes.

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent in a relevant STEM discipline.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar product safety engineering role within an aerospace company.
• Knowledge of key safety regulations and standards relating to UAS development.
• Experience engaging with project engineering teams ensuring all relevant safety considerations are captured.

• Experience integrating complex systems and/or systems engineering.
• Experience with UAS and autonomous systems.
• Experience working within defence.
• Experience engaging with aviation regulators (CAA and MAA).
• Knowledge of requirements engineering, configuration and data management.
• Qualification and…