Head of Systems, Safety and Test

• Salary: £75,000- £95,000 DOE
• Full Time
• Permanent

Sub Sea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to Linked In Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
• Offsite Parking available.

• Heading up a department of multidisciplinary engineers across systems engineering, safety, assurance along with test and validation.
• Oversee the capture, analysis, and validation of system and user requirements in collaboration with stakeholders and customers, fostering a customer-focused engineering culture.
• Establish and oversee the verification and validation strategy across all system levels, ensuring robust evidence is generated to support requirements closure and compliance.
• Manage 3rd party assurance ensuring designs are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Drive a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach across mechanical, electrical, software, and control systems teams to enable the development of integrated, high-performing systems, supported by robust data frameworks.
• Build and mentor a high-performing teams across Systems Engineering, Safety and Test & Validation.
• Head of Systems, Safety & Test will be responsible for budgetary control across the 3 disciplines, along with ensuring local processes are developed and maintained.
• Champion innovative risk evaluation and management practices as a core driving force in technical development.
• Act as an authority on 3rd party assurance, supporting project-level decision making and stakeholder confidence in system integrity.
• Lead the development of internal safety cases and ensure implementation into our design foundations.
• Ensure robust traceability across requirements, architecture, design, and testing, embedding systems thinking throughout the full engineering lifecycle.
• Set the strategic direction for systems engineering across projects, ensuring a consistent and rigorous approach to requirements management and system integration through data-driven interface management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Worked in a Systems Engineering role, ideally within the maritime defence sector, including technical leadership roles.
• Systems engineering experience in the context of safety-critical systems.
• Successful track record of working on complex projects with interdisciplinary teams.
• Conversant in the concepts of model-based systems engineering and confidence in applying these…