Principal Engineer

Job Title: Principal Safety Engineer – Safety & Environmental Engineering
Location: Barrow-in-Furness – we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
Provide technical leadership as a subject matter expert in safety engineering
Mentor and develop engineers, guiding safety analysis and influencing design decisions
Analyse and influence nuclear submarine design using safety engineering techniques, focussing on major hazards (fires, explosions including DSEAR, steam release)
Apply engineering judgement to justify design safety and compliance
Interface with regulators, clients within the MOD and internal stakeholders
Develop and review safety case documentation to substantiate design safety
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Degree qualified in a relevant STEM discipline or equivalent experience
Strong analytical , written and oral communication skills with a practical and pragmatic approach to problem solving
Proven ability to produce clear, structured safety case arguments and supporting technical documentation for complex systems
Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate hazards in complex engineering environments
Desirable:
Experience in a highly regulated industries (nuclear, oil and gas, maritime, aerospace)
Experience in DSEAR and fire risk assessments, including hazard identification and analysis .
Familiarity with hazard analysis techniques (e.g. HAZOP, FMEA, Fault and Event Tree Analysis )
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 Safety & Environmental team
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team tasked which offers exposure to the wider strategic initiative. You will be working with six people from principals to apprentices, liaising with operational managers, heads of departments as well as the Health & Safety teams. This role offers exposure to the Wider Control Damage Hazards team whilst individually being given the opportunity for professional growth within the function. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 9th December 2025
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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