Job Title: Product Safety Team Leader

Location: Samlesbury – 3 days per week onsite

Salary: £60,000 (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.

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’ll be doing:

You’ll lead a diverse team delivering through life System Safety activities across Products and Services. Working collaboratively, you’ll develop and maintain key safety documentation, ensuring clear, consistent, and high-quality outputs across all areas of responsibility.

You’ll assess emerging safety risks, guide engineering teams on safety evidence, and support inclusive knowledge-sharing. Coaching junior colleagues, you’ll help maintain hazard logs and contribute to safety reporting, while engaging with partners and customers through System Safety Group activities.

Core duties:

• You’ll have experience authoring and approving safety documentation or technical reports, with a strong understanding of Safety Management Systems
• You’ll bring proven experience from Product and Service safety environment (inclusive of FFA, ZHA, FTA, FMECA)
• You’ll be professionally registered (IEng/CEng) or actively working towards accreditation
• You’ll have a solid understanding of the system and/or software engineering lifecycle
• You’ll demonstrate a good working knowledge of relevant engineering standards and best practices

The Product Integrity Team:

You will be leading a team of Safety Engineers responsible for managing routine and urgent safety issues across the F-35 platform in line with the programme’s Safety Management System (SMS). You will play a key role in safeguarding platform safety, ensuring that risks are identified, assessed and addressed efficiently and effectively.

This position requires a high level of initiative, strong decision-making capability, and the confidence to work collaboratively with industrial partners, customers and wider stakeholders across the globe. Clear communication and the ability to build strong working relationships are essential to maintaining safety governance and driving timely resolution of issues.

The role also offers development opportunities, with the chance to broaden technical expertise, grow leadership capability, and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of safety processes within a high-profile and fast-paced programme environment.

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.

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: 7th April 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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