Maritime Systems Safety Group Lead

Overview

In this role you lead a Maritime Safety Group within MBDA’s Safety and Reliability Engineering Department to deliver robust safety engineering outputs for multiple weapon system projects. You will mentor a team of safety engineers while directly contributing key safety evidence and analyses. You’ll shape how safety work integrates with systems engineering and certification processes, driving timely, cost-effective, and high-quality safety cases. This position offers leadership impact, cross-functional collaboration, and the chance to influence safety across advanced products.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus up to 21% of base salary
• pension up to 14% total contribution
• flexible working arrangements
• enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption, shared parental)
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• subsidised meals and free car parking

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Hazard Analyses, Safety Case Reports, and supporting safety evidence across multiple weapon system projects
• Develop and manage a group of ~10 safety engineers, focusing on staffing, capability growth, and performance
• Coordinate with design engineers, project controllers, customers and stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-quality safety outputs
• Ensure integration of safety evaluation processes with systems engineering product certification
• Contribute to reshaping the department’s safety engineering delivery model and practice
• Balance time, cost, and evidence sufficiency to construct convincing safety cases

Key requirements

• Strong systems safety certification background
• Proven track record as a team leader in multi-disciplinary environments
• Experience applying UK/International safety and system engineering processes (Def Stan 00-056)
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; capable of working in multi-national teams
• Ability to plan workloads, delegate tasks, and develop others
• Degree qualified or equivalent (ideally)
• Willingness to obtain BPSS security checks and meet clearance requirements
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• leadership
• interpersonal influence
• adaptability
• Hazard Analysis
• Functional Failure Analysis (FFA)
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

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