Principal Safety Engineer

  • Searchability NS&D
  • Oct 22, 2025
Full time Engineering

Job Description

PERMANENT PRINCIPAL SAFETY ENGINEER

NEW PERMANENT OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE WITHIN A GLOBALLY LEADING DEFENCE COMPANY FOR A PRINCIPAL SAFETY ENGINEER

  • Permanent opportunity for a principal safety engineer
  • Globally leading Defence organisation
  • MUST be able to obtain or already have SC clearance
  • £50,000 - £75,000 DOE
  • To apply please call or email

WHO WE ARE?

We are recruiting a principal safety engineer to work with a multi-national, industry leading Defence company in South-West London. Due to the nature of the work, you must hold, or be eligible for SC Clearance.

WHAT WILL THE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER BE DOING?

As a principal safety engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Safety as well as mentoring more junior members in the implementation, co-ordination and conduct of programme safety and environmental related activities.

WE NEED THE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER TO HAVE .

  • MUST be able to obtain or already have SC security clearance
  • Experience developing safety management plans
  • Experience conducting functional safety assessments
  • Experience documenting system level safety arguments
  • Knowledge of UK and EU safety related legislation
  • Experience with IEC 61508
  • Knowledge of defence and commercial safety standards such as Def Stan 00-056 + 00-056
  • It would be nice to have experience of maritime / defence safety engineering
  • Event Tree and Fault Tree development using Reliability Work Bench

TO BE CONSIDERED .

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to For further information please call me on or . I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7am until 10pm. If unavailable, please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, just search Dominic Barbet. I look forward to hearing from you.

FUNCTIONAL SAFETY ENGINEER

KEY SKILLS:

SYSTEM SAFETY / SYSTEM SAFETY ENGINEER / SAFETY / SAFETY ENGINEER / SYSTEMS SAFETY / SAFETY ENGINEER / SAFETY CONSULTANT / DEFENCE / AEROSPACE / MILITARY / SYSTEMS ENGINEER / DV CLEARED / DV CLEARANCE / DEVELOPPED VETTING / DEVELOPED VETTED / DEEP VETTING / DEEP VETTED / SC CLEARED / SC CLEARANCE / SECURITY CLEARED / SECURITY CLEARANCE /