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.

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

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

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