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Principal Safety Engineer - Maritime

Posting Date: 24 Jul 2025

City: Leatherhead

Location:

Leatherhead, United Kingdom, KT22 7AJ Southampton, United Kingdom, SO14 0TB Chippenham, United Kingdom, SN15 1BN Lincoln, United Kingdom, LN6 7FL

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Electronics and System Engineering

Level of experience: Senior

RINA’s Maritime Safety Consulting division is looking for an exceptional Safety Engineering Consultant to join a specialist and growing team, working for Defence clients across all naval platforms including surface ships, carrier, submarine and unmanned patrol vessels.This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and shape RINA’s Safety and/or ISA capability, providing the Royal Navy with world class safety advisory services.

This role can be based out of Southampton, Chippenham, Leatherhead or Lincoln offices though RINA is smart/hybrid working organisation, so living within commuter distance of the office is not necessarily required. Moderate travel across the UK is required though.

The role

• You will lead a variety of functional Safety Engineering projects to ensure requirements are delivered on time, to budget, and to the required quality.
• You will manage projects either as an individual or managing a small team.
• Support with bids, proposals, analysis and report writing.
• Promote RINA’s Safety capability to customers, providing expert counsel, through face-to-face liaison, relationship building and presentations.
• Assist the Safety management team with augmenting safety capability to meet new and emerging market demands.
• This is not a Health & Safety (HSE) role.

Qualifications & experience

• At least ten years’ experience in the application of safety engineering management solutions is high hazard environments.
• Knowledge of UK MOD (Defence) maritime platforms.
• Experience in conducting Hazard & Safety Risk Analysis or Independent Safety Assurance (ISA) projects and have developed safety cases.
• Experience in the use and application of Safety Engineering tools such as Reliability Workbench, ASCE, BowTie, ETA and/or FTA.
• Some working knowledge of the following Defence Standard 00-56 and regulations including DSA02-DMR.
• An understanding of how UK MOD frameworks (i.e. Aurora) operate.
• Some working knowledge of ASEMS, POSMS and POEMS processes.
• You will have an engineering background.
• Ideally you will have UK Security Clearance, or you must be a British citizen and be prepared to go through vetting.

About RINA Aerospace & Defence (ASD) UK: RINA S&D UK has been awarded Gold status with the Armed Forces Covenant Employers Recognition Scheme and proudly supports those who serve.

RINA ASD UK is a Engineering Consultancy to the Defence sector, providing a portfolio of consultancy services, including Safety, ILS, Training, Cyber Assurance, Environmental and Human Factors. It has a proven track record and excellent reputation in supporting and improving performance for some of the military’s most technically advanced programmes across air, land, and sea.

RINA Group

RINA is a 6,000 strong global engineering services and consulting firm, with a heritage in Classification and Certification. It provides innovative safety related services to Defence, energy, oil & gas, power, renewables and transport & infrastructure. Operating out of 70 countries, RINA offers significant depth of experience across engineering disciplines to support clients, ensuring the functional safety of products and platforms. RINA has a strong reputation providing services that are of the highest quality, creating significant value add to its clients.

Why RINA

We offer competitive salaries and pension contributions. You will enjoy a generous leave allowance, private medical care, life insurance and more. Our great financial benefits are only part of the attraction, you can expect quick integration and real opportunities for professional development (i.e. Chartership). As part of our growing global team you will work with world-class engineers. #LI-JB1

• As part of our growing global team you’ll find yourself working with world-class professionals and clients in a variety of market sectors. As well as that you will be rewarded with:
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays)
• Option to buy more holiday
• Smart Working policy
• Professional development, support with qualifications (i.e. Chartership)
• Pay for professional membership
• Life Assurance
• Healthcare cover (Family can be added at an additional cost)
• Support of Military Reservists – 10 additional paid days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Competitive recruitment referral bonus
• 4 half days paid leave for STEM Ambassadors