Safety Engineer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Safety Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering cutting-edge technologies within the UK defence sector.

Working across complex and safety-critical programmes, you will play a key role in ensuring products are designed, developed, and delivered with safety and reliability at the forefront. This position offers the chance to influence system design, support mission-critical projects, and work alongside multidisciplinary teams developing advanced electronic and software-based solutions.

As a Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing safety risks throughout the product lifecycle. Acting as a subject matter expert, you will support engineering teams by embedding safety principles into design decisions and ensuring compliance with relevant industry and defence standards.

• Conduct hazard identification, hazard analysis, and safety assessments throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform reliability and safety analyses including FMEA, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), and Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA).
• Develop and maintain hazard logs, ensuring hazards and mitigations are appropriately tracked and managed.
• Define and derive safety requirements and ensure traceability through implementation and verification.
• Produce safety documentation, safety cases, compliance evidence, and technical reports.
• Facilitate safety reviews, workshops, and risk assessment activities with cross-functional teams.
• Support design reviews and influence engineering decisions to ensure safety requirements are fully integrated.
• Assess the impact of design changes on system safety and support change management activities.
• Work with customers, regulators, and assurance bodies to support audits and certification activities.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practice across the wider engineering community.

• Experience working in a safety-critical or highly regulated environment such as Defence, Aerospace, Nuclear, Rail, Automotive, or similar sectors.
• Strong knowledge of safety engineering principles and methodologies.
• Proven experience conducting FMEA, FMECA, hazard analysis, safety assessments, and risk management activities.
• Experience developing and maintaining safety cases.
• Knowledge of standards such as Def Stan 00-056, MIL-STD-1629, MIL-HDBK-217F, ARP
  4761, and ARP
  4754.
• Strong understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and acceptance processes.
• Ability to influence design decisions and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple activities and work autonomously.
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS and Enterprise Architect.
• Knowledge of digital electronics and hardware failure modes.
• Experience with in defence or military equipment programmes.
• Familiarity with secure or high-assurance systems.
• Exposure to Dev Sec Ops , Continuous Integration, and automated testing environments.

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be willing and eligible to obtain and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) Security Clearance.