Safety Assurance Engineer - Aviation in-service support

BAE Systems; England; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 53,000

Job description

Job Title: Safety Assurance Engineer - Aviation in-service support

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

Salary: £47,683 - £52,426 dependant on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• You will be independently reviewing Support Solution artefacts to ensure safety implications are suitably addressed.
• Assuring validity of Support Solution safety justifications in support of Support Solution deliverables.
• This role will require you to understand what evidence need to be provided in support solution qualification and safety justifications.
• Liaising with both internal and external stakeholders as required, ensuring that their requirements are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered.
• Writing Independent Safety Assurance (ISA) Judgement reports in support of Target Event deliverables and presenting any ISA recommendations or concerns to the Product Technical Authority.
• Providing ISA Support to the program Product Safety Review meetings in support of all customers and to the Safety Committee meetings.

Your skills and experiences:

• Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant subject, or have equivalent experience to offset.
• An understanding of In-Service support and training activities (a preference towards RAF, Military flying etc. but not essential).
• Understanding and application of a range of common Safety management tools, techniques and practices.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and form safety related opinions and justifications independently.
• Knowledge and experience of Product Safety Assurance and effective Safety Management Systems. Note this is a Product Safety role not an OHSE role.

Benefits:

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

The Support & Specialist ISA Services team:

The team operates across all Air products (goods and services) providing product safety, product environmental sustainability and product security engineering resource to all programmes across the business. In addition, the team delivers the independent assurance activities associated with airworthiness, product safety, product environmental sustainability and product security in a collaborative and supportive environment.

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.

Closing Date: 7th April 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.