Job Title: Principal Product Safety Engineer\n\nLocation: Coventry\n\nWe offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.\n\nSalary: Negotiable, depending on experience \n\nWhat you’ll be doing:\n\nWorking as part of an Integrated Development Team, established to develop and deliver submarine systems /capability\n\nSpecifically focusing on ensuring that Product Safety tasking and activities are completed across multiple systems in support of project milestones through all stages of Engineering Life Cycle Management\n\nSupporting Hazard Identification and Analysis studies\n\nAssisting with or generating safety reports\n\nEnsuring the Integrated Development Team operates within the project Safety Management System\n\nLiaising with other Integrated Development Teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team\n\nYour skills and experiences:\n\nObtained or predicted 2:2 in a Bachelor’s or Master’s Engineering degree\n\nAn understanding of ‘Safety and Systems Engineering’ and of the ‘Engineering Life Cycle Management’\n\nExperience working and delivering tasks as part of team, but also capable of working and delivering tasks unsupervised\n\nThe ability to be agile in working practices and customer expectations\n\nSelf-motivated, with good verbal and written communication skills\n\nPractical experience as a Product Safety Engineer in the maritime defence sector is preferable, although experience in other sectors will be considered\n\nBenefits:\n\nYou’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.\n\nThe Product Safety Team:\n\nTo support our ongoing need to recruit the best engineering talent, BAE Systems Submarines is delighted to shortly be opening a brand-new office in Coventry. BAE Systems Submarines is experiencing a period of significant growth, and we are now actively recruiting a variety of roles and specialisms to support our ongoing submarines programs which is critical to delivering our endeavour.

\n\nIf you are interested in understanding how submarines operate and how the Royal Navy operate the submarines, then this role is for you. As a Product Safety Engineer, you will assist System Engineers in influencing submarine systems and capability development. You will develop an understanding of how submarine systems work and work together and ensure that the system of system interactions considers Product Safety appropriately.\n\nThe role will provide the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of safety management and safety case delivery.

This includes safety requirements capture and management, hazard identification and analysis, hazard data management, application of the ALARP principle, creation/maintenance of safety documentation and continuous improvement of the safety management system. The role provides a real opportunity to gain a broad overview of a complex system (i.e. submarine).

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.\n\nWhy BAE Systems?\n\nThis is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values 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 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.\n\nPlease 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 , any 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 Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.\n\nClosing Date: 25th August 2025\n\nWe 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.\n\n#LI-KP1 #LI-Hybrid