Principal Engineer Product Safety RCD

Principal Engineer - Product Safety (RCD)
Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow (hybrid - typically 1-2 days onsite per week)
Contract: 12 months
Rate: £60.00 PAYE (Inside IR35) or £81.05 UMB
Security: BPSS, need to be eligible for SC
Hours: 40 per week

The role

We're recruiting for a Principal Engineer (Product Safety) to join a Programme Product Safety team within a major organisation in the Defence & Security sector. You'll work autonomously, providing thought leadership and stakeholder management to support the development and delivery of robust safety case arguments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead hazard identification, risk analysis, and development of safety schemes with subsystem Technical Authorities
• Build and maintain safety case arguments supported by assurance evidence and artefacts
• Support Technical Authority teams with hazard/risk management, mitigation and hazard log development
• Coordinate and lead customer engagement workshops; agree evidence requirements, prepare evidence packs and produce safety submissions
• Conduct product safety assessments for major subsystems / complex technologies
• Lead updates to System Design Safety Assessments (SDSAs) to support safety case refreshes
• Manage stakeholder engagement across the supplier base and key customer stakeholders to support progress to certification
• Verify quality/accuracy of hazard log submissions; produce monthly reporting and statistics
• Plan, organise and facilitate HAZIDs, review meetings, and contribute to wider safety activity
• Take ownership of product safety activities in your allocated equipment area, including tasking/reviewing junior engineers' work

Essential experience

• Strong knowledge of product safety management processes and techniques
• Experience working across multiple phases of a Life Cycle Management (LCM) framework
• Awareness of relevant ship/system safety standards such as:
  • DSA-02 / DSA-03
  • JSP430
  • Def Stan 00-056
  • MIL-STD-882E
  • BS EN 61508

Desirable

• Familiarity with Product Safety Management frameworks and through-life engineering considerations
• Experience delivering product safety in naval or wider defence projects (sensors/weapons exposure is a plus)
• Awareness of internal product safety policies/procedures in large defence environments

Qualifications

• Professionally registered, or eligible for professional registration, in a STEM discipline

Apply

If you're a Principal-level Product Safety Engineer looking for a long-term contract in a high-assurance environment, please apply with an up-to-date CV.