Principal Engineer – Safety Engineering (Safety Requirements)
Company: BAE Systems
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Posted: May 5th, 2026
Responsibilities
- Manage all safety requirements flowing from whole boat into combat systems, ensuring accurate capture, traceability, and configuration control within DOORS in a complex engineering environment
- Lead requirements decomposition activities (including DSRs, 4SFRs and 5SFRs) following Safety Team analysis, aligned with the V lifecycle model and INCOSE systems engineering principles
- Maintain robust requirements governance, change control, and configuration management across the safety lifecycle
- Provide clear, concise, and evidence-based reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager on safety requirements status, progress, risks, and compliance
- Liaise with subsystem teams, suppliers, and safety engineers to ensure alignment, consistency, and effective communication of requirements
- Support gap analysis between formal safety requirements and supplier assumptions to ensure compliance and technical integrity
- Ensure safety requirements are appropriately defined, validated, and maintained using strong systems engineering practice
- Produce high-quality technical documentation and communicate engineering decisions effectively to stakeholders at all levels
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of safety engineering or systems engineering principles within complex engineering environments
- Experience with requirements management tools (eg DOORS) and configuration control processes
- Knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle and V-model development approach
- Ability to analyse, structure, and decompose complex technical requirements
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and influence multiple stakeholders
- Experience working in regulated or safety-critical environments (eg defence, maritime, nuclear, aerospace)
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