Undergraduate Safety Engineer

Description

Job Title: Undergraduate Maritime Services Safety Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base (Hampshire)

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements, however for this role you will be expected to attend your site 3-5 days per week.

Salary: £24,300

What You’ll Be Doing

• Safety Case architecture.
• Developing a unique mind-set in which the question to be answered is not how does it work, but how does it fail. To do this you will;
• Carry out a detailed Safety Inspection of the engineering design using tools such as Hazard Identification, Fault Tree Analysis, Functional Hazard Analysis, Event Tree Analysis and many others.
• Develop an in depth understanding of the engineering design.
• This is a role which requires relentless effort in which subjective questions must be answered with a compelling argument supported by a body of evidence.
• Questions such as how can this piece of equipment or function fail, what would happen if it were to fail, what would be the consequence of its failure, how often will it fail, what safety measures are in place in the event of its failure, how often will the failure result in an accident, what is the risk associated with this failure, is the risk acceptable, has the risk been reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable.
  
  

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

About Warship Support

A modern, data-driven organisation based in Portsmouth Naval Base, delivering a diverse support portfolio to customers including the Royal Navy, incorporating the highest standards of safety, quality and performance. Safe and well-governed delivery methods, underpinned by our facilities, tools, people and processes, enable us to provide reliable, agile and professional support to warships at home and overseas. With people and our culture at the very heart of everything we do, it is an agile and dynamic environment providing exciting challenges every day.

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.

Qualification Requirements

As a minimum requirement you’ll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering Disciplines, Safety Engineering, Environmental, Physics.

Start date (dd Month Year) 22nd June 2026 Length of contract 12 months