Flight Systems Senior Safety Engineer
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as a Senior Safety Engineer in Brough, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the safety of complex aircraft systems. You'll drive hazard identification, safety case development, and provide technical leadership to a dedicated safety team.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead safety management and delivery for critical aircraft systems.
- Conduct comprehensive hazard identification and analysis.
- Develop and maintain robust safety cases and arguments.
- Provide essential safety engineering expertise for military aircraft.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and programme teams.
- Offer technical leadership and contribute to team development.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Senior Safety Engineer at BAE Systems in Brough, you will be instrumental in the management and delivery of safety activities across a diverse range of aircraft systems. This includes hydraulics, flying controls, landing systems, electrical generation, fuel, propulsion, environmental control systems, and crew escape systems.
Your responsibilities will encompass hazard identification and analysis, safety requirements management, safety case development, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will provide crucial technical leadership and contribute to the professional development of the wider Safety team, ensuring the highest standards of safety are maintained.
Core Duties
- Maintain and update Flight Systems safety analyses to ensure accuracy, robustness, and alignment with programme and regulatory requirements.
- Review aircraft design changes and modifications, assessing their safety impact and producing supporting safety statements and documentation.
- Conduct hazard identification and analysis activities, including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
- Generate, review, and maintain sub-system hazard analyses for various aircraft systems.
- Support the investigation and resolution of in-service queries, incidents, and emergent safety concerns by providing timely safety engineering input.
- Produce and review risk assessments, ensuring hazards are appropriately identified, evaluated, and managed.
- Contribute to safety process workshops, product safety forums, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and the wider safety community to support the development and maintenance of platform-level safety arguments and safety cases.
- Provide safety engineering expertise to support the continued airworthiness and safe operation of military aircraft systems.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
- Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in an Engineering discipline.
- Experience in safety engineering within a complex, highly regulated engineering environment.
- Knowledge and practical application of system safety methodologies, including Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Safety Case or Safety Justification development.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and the application of the engineering lifecycle, including the ‘V’ model.
- Experience identifying, assessing, and managing technical and safety risks throughout the product lifecycle.
- Familiarity with structured problem-solving and root cause investigation techniques.
- Ability to produce, review, and maintain technical safety documentation and engineering reports.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and the ability to work with engineering databases and specialist toolsets.
About the Flight Systems Safety Team
Join our Flight Systems Safety team in Brough, where you will work alongside experienced engineers dedicated to ensuring the safety and airworthiness of military fast jet aircraft systems. The team provides specialist safety engineering expertise across a wide range of aircraft sub-systems, supporting in-service platforms and collaborating closely with engineering, programme, and customer stakeholders to deliver robust safety solutions throughout the product lifecycle.
Why BAE Systems?
At BAE Systems, you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. We offer lifelong learning, meaningful work, and opportunities for growth in a supportive environment. You’ll be recognised for your contributions and enjoy rewards tailored to your needs, with support for your financial and personal wellbeing, and a balanced lifestyle. We foster an inclusive workplace where diversity strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
Security and Export Control
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible for. All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, which typically involves 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required.