Senior Product Safety Engineer – FalconWorks

Job Title Senior Product Safety Engineer – FalconWorks

Job Location Warton – On site – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary £ 51,772+ DOE

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.

Role Description 

As a Product Safety Engineer, you will provide pan platform and cross functional safety engineering support across the FalconWorks portfolio, ensuring system safety and certification requirements are effectively integrated from the earliest stages of platform and system design.

Working closely with engineering and technical teams, you will help shape safe, compliant and robust solutions throughout the product lifecycle.

You will evaluate platform, system and sub-system designs, supporting safety certification activities and assessing safety risks as programmes mature. The role includes generating, updating and reviewing safety engineering deliverables, providing expert guidance to project teams, and ensuring safety considerations remain at the heart of engineering decision making from concept through to delivery

Core Duties

• Collaborate with Technical and Engineering teams to ensure system safety and safety certification requirements are embedded within platform architecture and design during the early lifecycle phases
• Evaluate platform, system and sub-system designs, providing robust safety engineering support throughout the engineering lifecycle and certification process
• Generate, review and maintain system safety engineering deliverables and certification evidence, ensuring compliance with design airworthiness requirements
• Conduct risk assessments, applying strong analytical skills and sound engineering judgement to identify hazards and validate mitigation actions
• Manage, communicate and report residual risks, product integrity issues and corrective actions through to closure
• Assess customer design deviations and determine appropriate recovery or remediation pathways where required

Essential skills

• Experience in Safety Engineering, Environmental Engineering and/or Security Engineering within a complex engineering environment
• Proven experience in an engineering integration role across the product lifecycle
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and multidisciplinary engineering environments
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver engineering outcomes
• Ability to support the integration, coordination and delivery of engineering activities across multiple disciplines and lifecycle stages

The FalconWorks Safety Engineering Team

You’ll join the FalconWorks Safety Engineering Team within BAE Systems Air, a specialist group providing product safety expertise across the full Air portfolio. Supporting a diverse range of aerospace programmes, the team works closely with engineering functions to embed safety, influence best practice, and deliver certifiable, high-quality products and services.

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 – support for 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 proud of the difference you make.

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 all candidates and give full, fair and open consideration to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact our recruitment team to discuss any further support you may need. Connect with us at baesystems.com/connect

Security Statement

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, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 4th September 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.