System Safety Engineering Lead

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Job Title: System Safety Engineering Lead
Location: Warton, would also consider Prestwick – On site
Salary: Up to £62,498 dependent on experience
What you’ll be doing:
Maintaining and updating the D&C System Safety Assessment Report
Reviewing design changes and generating safety statements
Reviewing Prelminary Hazard Analysis
Reviewing Safety Critical Functional Chains
Supporting in-service queries/incidents
Supporting safety process change workshops, and product safety forums
Your skills and experiences:
Essential
Experience in system safety working practices; e.g. Hazard Analysis, Safety Cases, Fault Tree Analyis, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis
Strong understanding and experience of the ‘V’ lifecycle, and system engineering principles
Experience leading a team
Highly desirable
Knowledge of Avionics development processes and toolsets
Working knowledge of IBM Statemate and Ada programming language
Experience using Reliability Workbench software
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 Typhoon displays and control team:
The team provides support to all of the LRIs within the D&C sub-system, with occasional tasks from IMRS and DASS. As such this role covers all of the different LRIs in the sub-system. The primary focus are the LRIs for which BAES develop application software, i.e. CIU, CSG and HEA, but other tasks cover both hardware aspects of these LRIs and all elements of the other D&C equipment.
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: 19th March 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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Location:
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Job Type:
FullTime

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