Principal Engineer – Product Safety

Job Description

Job Title: Sr. Product Safety Engineer

Location: Halifax, NS

Salary: $85,206 – $106,389

What you’ll be doing:

• Planning, executing, and reporting on product safety activities
• Facilitating and providing expert guidance on HazID, risk analysis, and risk management processes
• Defining safety arguments and contributing to the development of the safety case
• Managing hazard logs, safety information, and assurance evidence
• Conducting specific analyses to support risk assessments
• Taking ownership of product safety assessments for major subsystems or complex technologies

Your skills and experiences:

• Knowledge and hands on experience of the HazID processes e.g Functional Failure Analysis, hazard assessment and risk management
• Experience creating a safety argument for a complex product
• Solid communication and problem solving skills with the ability to liaise with stakeholders at various levels alongside presentation and facilitation skills
• Registered Professional Engineer or actively working towards designation
• Knowledge of bow tie modelling processes

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a generous annual leave allowance and paid sick leave. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, group health, dental, and vision benefits as well as life insurance – you may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

In addition, you will also be entitled to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) company match of up to 5% of your annual salary.

The Product Safety team:

The Product Safety team is a group of 40 practitioners deployed across a wide range of programmes. You might be working in a team on a large complex program or individually for one or many smaller programs. Accountability for the safety of the design solution rests with the Technical Authority. Your role is to support the Technical Authority in their decision making, create a plan of activities that will ensure that by working within the Product safety management framework, risks have been identified systematically and managed so far as is reasonable practicable. You will become exposed to a wide range of technical disciplines, be able to follow technical argument and be able to influence the integrity of the final product.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: April 9th, 2025

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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