Radar Safety Lead

Job Title: Radar Safety Lead

Location: Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793 – £60,326 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Working closely with the Radar Technical Authority and stakeholders to deliver the safety requirements of the Typhoon Radar
• Manage and discharge the Safety and Complex Electronic Hardware workload, including line management responsibility of 4 professionals
• Supporting the resolution of Safety related issues
• Reviewing Safety assessments and evidence in flight clearance documentation
• Assessing supplier deviations related to safety
• Generating Safety arguments to maintain the safety of the aircraft as well as generating in-service risk assessments and in-service instructions

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience
• Safety engineering experience (HAZOP, Fault Tree Analysis, safety cases)
• Chartered Engineer (or working towards)
• The ability to form and lead cross-functional and cross organisational teams

Desirable:

• Airborne Radar experience
• Knowledge of Typhoon platform

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Equipment Design Responsibility (EDR) team:

This is an exciting role for a Safety Engineer working within the E-Scan Radar Equipment Design Responsibility (EDR) team on Eurofighter Typhoon in support of the Safety development effort on the E-Scan Radar program. The role sits within the EDR team based at Warton working closely with the Radar Equipment Supplier (EuroRadar, Leonardo-UK, Hensoldt, Leonardo-IT and Indra), Eurofighter GmbH and other System Design Responsibility (SDR) engineering disciplines in delivering the various E-Scan Radar programs to time, cost and without compromise to safety or quality.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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: 15th November 2024

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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