Engineering Leadership

2 days ago


KirkbyinFurness, Cumbria, United Kingdom BAE Systems Full time
Product Safety Director - Maritime Assurance

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. Competitive salary: £55,000 (dependent on experience).

About the Role:

  • You will support the production of the safety Build Assurance Justification.
  • Review and ascertain the appropriateness of the Safety Argument and Safety Evidence provided by BAE and ensure that the platform is being built to design intent.
  • Liaise with the Barrow Safety Assurance Manager on any concessions where the Platform build differs from design intent.
  • Act as the MOD technical liaison with Platform and Nuclear Propulsion build committees.
  • Provide the safety interface with the propulsion/reactor/ships/weapons Test Groups.

Your Key Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills and experiences with senior board levels.
  • Gained programme management experience.
  • Previous experience in build assurance or maritime platforms of complex systems.
  • Good experience of technical risk management/governance procedures.
  • Hold a degree within a STEM subject.

Why Choose Us?

We offer a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance, and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits like flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work, and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

About the Dreadnought Alliance:

The Dreadnought Alliance is a collaboration between Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, and the Ministry of Defence to deliver the 'Dreadnought Class SSBN' programme. The scope of the Dreadnought Programme is the delivery of four SSBNs to the Royal Navy to maintain Continuous At Sea Deterrence (CASD). This post is part of the Joint Design Authority within the Dreadnought Alliance, which is the Platform & Whole Boat Design Authority for Dreadnought, structured around the Alliance Project Team engineering team and BAES Office of the Chief Engineer (OCE) team.



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