Systems Safety Engineer

Malloy Aeronautics Ltd
Maidenhead, SL6 1QB, United Kingdom
Last week
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

Security Clearance

About The Role:

As a Safety Engineer, you will be reporting to the Chief Engineer. This exciting role will place the right candidate at the forefront of unmanned air systems development in the UK.

We seek a highly motivated engineer to oversee the development and implementation of safety processes for UAS systems. As a Safety Engineer, you will drive the integration of safety requirements into engineering designs, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and industry best practices. You will apply your expertise in safety engineering and risk management to assess hazards, develop safety cases, and maintain product integrity throughout the lifecycle. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote a strong safety culture, providing guidance, training, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.

Ability to hold Security Clearance – 5 years residence in the UK

Key role responsibilities:

• Evaluation of aircraft and system / sub-system design safety in support of platform safety certification throughout the Engineering Lifecycle

• Generating, updating and reviewing Aircraft, System and Sub-System System Safety Engineering tasks such as

• Decomposition of safety requirements at all relevant product levels (Weapon Platform, System, Sub-System, Equipment)

• Zonal Hazard Analysis Reports (ZHAs)

• Preliminary Hazard List (PHL)

• Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)

• System / Sub-System Hazard Analysis

• Validation of supplier safety analysis / documentation.

• System / sub-system safety assessment reports, including safety analysis (fault tree analysis etc.)

• Ensuring that Certification evidence supports achievement of an acceptable level of product design safety wrt Design Airworthiness requirements and identified hazards

• Assess customer deviations from the design for adverse impact on product integrity and identify recovery route (where necessary)

• Support the project teams, support and service engineering organisations with the generation of Risk Assessments, ensuring suitable justification exists for action and the adequacy of the proposed remedial / recovery action in mitigating Product safety risk / safety performance degradation

• Undertake the communication and management of residual risk through the appropriate process

• Manage and report any outstanding product integrity actions/issues through to closure

Additional role responsibilities:

• Establishing and delivering the engineering activities using systems integration, systems engineering techniques

• Sustaining the initial integrity of Malloy products through production challenge and review of design, certification and assurance evidence (including product data requirements) in line with market legislation and regulatory obligations

• Sustain the Malloy Engineering regarding Product Integrity through the development/ improvement of existing process and operations, challenging the norm, promoting efficiency and competitiveness whilst ensuring continuous delivery

• Validation and challenge of the initial evidence through professional judgement and constructive feedback, performance of audit and assurance activities, including involvement in design and phase review assessments (as appropriate)

• Recovery of the integrity of Malloy products through investigation, root cause analysis, technical instruction (using technical writing skills) and advising of potential design change

• Exploitation of learning across Air and other BAE Systems Units, Customers and Suppliers using appropriate alerting, lessons learnt and promotional processes.

Essential Skills and Experiences:

• Qualified to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant STEM discipline.

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar product safety engineering role within an aerospace company.

• Knowledge of key safety regulations and standards relating to UAS development.

• Experience engaging with project engineering teams ensuring all relevant safety considerations are captured.

Desired Skills and Experiences:

• Experience integrating complex systems and/or systems engineering.

• Experience with UAS and autonomous systems

• Experience working within defence.

• Experience engaging with aviation regulators (CAA and MAA).

• Requirements Engineering, Configuration and Data Management

• Qualification and Certification

• Safety Engineering, Environmental Engineering and/or Security Engineering

• Model Based Systems Engineering, Agile / Scrum Development

Benefits you may be eligible for:

• Working Environment: 9-day fortnight: free parking, free lunch on working Fridays’, fruit twice a week, tea and coffee.

• Company Pension Scheme

• Discretionary Employee Incentive Bonus Scheme

• Employee Share Incentive Plan (BAE Systems)

• Company Sick Pay

• Maternity and Paternity enhanced Leave

• Healthcare Cash Plan including Virtual GP, Dental Cover, Vision Cover, Discounted Gym Membership, and much more! Free coverage for children under 2 years old.

• 20 days Annual Leave, increasing with long service

• Employee Assistance Programme (24hr Helpline)

• Mental Health First Aiders

• Cycle to Work Scheme

Malloy Aeronautics employees will be subject to both security and export control restrictions.

These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Malloy Aeronautics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments or interviewing, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Note: If you have not heard from our recruitment department within 14 days, unfortunately you have not been successful.

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