Senior System Safety and Environmental Engineer (IAS)

Overview

As a Senior System Safety & Environmental Engineer, you will lead safety strategy for mission-critical defence programmes and ensure certification and safety compliance across the system lifecycle. You’ll influence design decisions, mentor teams, and drive risk reduction in complex, regulation-heavy environments. This role shapes end-to-end safety assurance from concept to disposal, delivering trusted, safe solutions for customers. Join a growing, high-velocity organisation tackling advanced defence technologies.

Pay / Benefits

• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (buy up to 40 hours)
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover

Responsibilities

• Lead S&EM activities within integrated project teams and ensure compliance with the IAS Safety Management System
• Conduct hazard identification, analysis, and risk assessment; define safety and environmental requirements across performance, design, interfaces and verification
• Influence multidisciplinary teams with evidence-based safety arguments to sustain S&EM requirements through the lifecycle
• Champion regulatory compliance and promote best practice across IAS programmes
• Plan and manage S&EM work packages, estimate engineering effort, produce hazard analyses and safety cases, and assemble assurance evidence for certification

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading Safety Engineering in complex, highly regulated programmes
• Expertise in hazard analysis, risk assessment and safety case development with robust assurance evidence
• Knowledge of safety-critical systems engineering, programmable elements, and assurance methods like SILs and DALs
• Understanding of safety standards, legislation, and environmental management, including Defence Standard 00-055
• Whole-life systems engineering capability from concept to in-service operation
• Chartered Engineer status or professional membership desirable

• Influencing multidisciplinary teams
• Strong communication and argumentation for safety cases
• Mentoring and leadership
• Hazard analysis and risk assessment
• Safety case development and assurance evidence
• Safety-critical systems engineering for programmable elements

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