Defence Safety Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a versatile and well-rounded safety engineer who is looking for variety, continuous learning, and the opportunity to work across multiple domains within defence safety. The position involves working on diverse, high-impact projects ranging from complex acquisition and in-service programmes to digital safety-case transformation and independent assurance, contributing to the evolving digital safety capability.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safety engineering and assurance activities across complex defence programmes
• Apply structured safety methods, produce clear evidence, and help clients make robust decisions throughout the lifecycle
• Support the development, maintenance, and delivery of safety cases, safety assessments, and safety management plans
• Create and maintain hazard logs; support hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk-reduction activities
• Develop clear safety arguments and manage the evidence needed to support acceptance and operation
• Apply proportionate safety analysis techniques such as HAZID, HAZOP, FHA, PHA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, ETA, and Bow Tie analysis
• Derive, allocate, trace, and verify safety requirements across the engineering lifecycle
• Produce high-quality technical reports, presentations, and client deliverables
• Contribute to safety working groups, assurance reviews, audits, and multidisciplinary engineering decisions
• Build effective relationships with clients, delivery partners, operators, suppliers, and assurance authorities

Requirements

• Relevant experience delivering safety engineering or safety assurance in a defence environment, gained through industry, MOD, or the Armed Forces
• Experience contributing to safety cases, safety assessments, hazard logs, or structured risk-management activities
• An understanding of systems engineering and the engineering lifecycle
• Ability to analyse technical information and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

• Formal technical assurance, peer review, and access to experienced practitioners and subject matter experts
• Domain Communities of Interest and professional networks
• Regular team meetings, knowledge-sharing events, and informal mentoring
• Career development support aligned wherever possible to your experience, interests, and goals

About the Company

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organisation delivering some of the most complex and critical programmes across defence, aerospace, nuclear, and other highly regulated sectors.