Safety-critical Lead (ARP4754, Safety leadership)

Role summary

Your impact

Want to use your safety engineering expertise to influence the next generation of Combat Air capability?

You will play a key role throughout the system lifecycle, ensuring safety risks are identified, understood and effectively managed while supporting airworthiness, certification and successful programme delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety engineering activities across complex Combat Air programmes.
• Develop and maintain Safety Cases, Hazard Logs and safety management plans.
• Lead and oversee safety assessments including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Preliminary Hazard Analyses (PHA), System Hazard Analyses (SHA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) and FMEA/FMECA.
• Define and manage safety requirements, ensuring traceability through design, integration and verification.
• Provide safety engineering guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers, helping embed safety considerations into technical decision-making.
• Develop and present safety evidence to customers, internal and external stakeholders and independent assessors.
• Mentor and support other safety engineers, contributing to the continued development of our safety engineering capability.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for someone with a strong background in system safety engineering who is comfortable taking a technical lead across complex engineering programmes.

• Strong experience in system safety engineering gained within aerospace, defence or another highly regulated engineering environment.
• Experience leading safety engineering activities on complex systems or programmes.
• Practical experience developing Safety Cases, managing hazards and applying safety and risk assessment techniques.
• Knowledge and practical application of relevant safety standards such as Def Stan 00-056, ARP4761, ARP4754A and/or MIL-STD-882.
• Experience defining, managing and tracing safety requirements through the engineering lifecycle.
• The ability to provide authoritative safety engineering guidance and influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
• A relevant Engineering, Systems, Safety or closely related technical qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.

Experience within Combat Air, military aviation, mission systems or electronic warfare, together with knowledge of Military Aviation Authority (MAA) regulations, airworthiness processes or Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), would also be valuable in this role.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Security Clearance

An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.

The organization is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

At the organization we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

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