Senior Product Safety Engineer

This is an opportunity to join a leading organisation within the defence and advanced engineering sector, contributing to the development of highly complex, safety-critical systems. You’ll be part of a collaborative engineering environment focused on delivering cutting-edge solutions across maritime platforms.

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

Working within an Integrated Development Team, you will play a key role in ensuring Product Safety activities are embedded throughout the full engineering lifecycle, supporting the safe delivery of system capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Product Safety activities across multiple systems, ensuring safety considerations are integrated throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Contribute to Hazard Identification and Analysis activities, supporting risk assessment, mitigation, and ongoing hazard management
• Produce and maintain safety documentation, ensuring outputs are clear, structured, and aligned with project requirements
• Ensure compliance with project Safety Management Systems, supporting governance and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to embed safety into system design and development
• Apply knowledge of engineering lifecycle processes to ensure safety is considered from concept through to delivery
• Adapt to changing project priorities, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and initiative
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Experience

• Experience in Product Safety, Safety Engineering, or Systems Engineering within a complex engineering environment
• Understanding of hazard identification, risk management, and safety case development
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to produce high-quality technical documentation
• Experience within the maritime or defence sector is desirable, though other safety-critical industries will be considered