Job Title: Senior Product Compliance Engineer

Location: Barrow-In-Furness, Brough, Portsmouth, Weymouth, Frimley or Filton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

Working as part of an Integrated Development Team, established to develop and deliver submarine systems / capability

Specifically 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

Supporting Hazard Identification and Analysis studies

Assisting with or generating safety reports

Ensuring the Integrated Development Team operates within the project Safety Management System

Liaising with other Integrated Development Teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team

Your skills and experiences:

Obtained or predicted 2:2 in a Bachelor’s or Master’s Engineering degree. In the absence of a degree, then sufficient and relevant work experience will be considered and a desire to obtain a degree will also be considered

An understanding of ‘Safety and Systems Engineering’ and of the ‘Engineering Life Cycle Management’

Experience working and delivering tasks as part of team, but also capable of working and delivering tasks unsupervised

The ability to be agile in working practices and customer expectations

Self-motivated, with good verbal and written communication skills

Practical experience as a Product Safety Engineer in the maritime defence sector is preferable, although experience in other sectors will be considered

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Safety & Environmental Team:

If 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.

The 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.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity 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 disability 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.

Please 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 nationality, any nationalities 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 National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th January 2026

We 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.

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