Principal Engineer – Safety Engineering (Safety Requirements)

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Safety Engineering (Safety Requirements)

Location: Weymouth, hybrid

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on experience

Who we are

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

What you will be doing

In this role, you will lead and manage the end-to-end safety requirements process within the Dreadnought Combat Systems Safety Engineering Team. You will ensure safety requirements are correctly captured, decomposed, recorded and communicated across relevant stakeholders, supporting the delivery of complex submarine combat system sub-systems.

Core duties

• Manage all safety requirements flowing down from whole boat into combat systems, ensuring accurate capture, traceability and configuration control within DOORS, while applying proven requirements management expertise in a complex engineering environment
• Lead Requirements Decomposition activities (including DSRs, 4SFRs and 5SFRs) following Safety Team analysis, ensuring structured breakdown aligned to the V lifecycle model and INCOSE systems engineering principles
• Deliver clear, concise and evidence-based reports to the Senior Engineering Manager on safety requirements status, progress, risks and compliance
• Liaise effectively with Subsystems, the Safety Team and Suppliers to ensure alignment, traceability and collaborative engagement across all safety requirements activities
• Provide specialist support to the Safety Team and Subsystems, assisting with Gap Analysis between Formal Safety Requirements and assumptive supplier requirements to ensure consistency and compliance
• Ensure robust requirements governance, change control and configuration management processes are applied consistently, maintaining integrity of safety requirements throughout the lifecycle
• Apply knowledge from a relevant Degree qualification or extensive equivalent experience to support technical decision-making, ensuring safety requirements are appropriately defined, validated and managed
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, producing high-quality documentation and reports that clearly articulate requirements status, technical rationale and engineering decisions

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans and an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. These include a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Dreadnought Combat Systems Safety Engineering Team

Joining this team offers a unique opportunity to apply your requirements management expertise to complex sub-systems forming the combat system of a submarine. We offer tailored relocation support across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

A place where everyone can thrive

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and want to make sure our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism or an anxiety disorder) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best.

You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, supporting your financial and personal wellbeing as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and be proud of the difference you make.

Closing Date: 27th March 2026

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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