Senior Safety Engineer

  • Expleo
  • Reading, Berkshire
  • Mar 26, 2026
Full time Engineering

Job Description

Overview

Expleois a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Principal Safety Engineer.

Initial role may require to work 3 days per week in Crawley / Reading

Responsibilities
  • The Safety Engineer will typically produce the following deliverables and outputs;
    • Safety Case reports and associated documentation.
    • Hazard Logs and associated reports.
    • Assessment of supplier safety compliance, in accordance with legislative and contractual safety requirements.
    • Safety analysis activity reports such as Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
    • Safety input to life-cycle management core engineering processes, design reviews (e.g. PDR and CDR)
    • Provide safety SME input to Systems projects.
Essential skills
  • The Safety Engineer will be required to have the following skills and experience;
    • Background with ordnance qualification and certification.
    • Understanding of legislative compliance, AMC and AAMC tailoring.
    • Assessments and providing Safety Argument for Design Authority Approval.
    • Comprehensive experience of hazard and risk management processes.
    • Risk Management, including Hazard Logs, Hazard Identification and Hazard Analysis.
    • Safety Analysis; e.g. Fault Tree Analysis, Bow Tie Analysis.
    • Assessing supplier safety compliance, in accordance with legislative and contractual safety requirements.
Desired skills
  • Desired to have one or more of these skills areas:
  • Air to Ship safety
  • Naval Background
  • Some land Experience
Experience
  • Extensive experience in Engineering with at least in Product Safety
  • Experience in setting certification strategies and plans for UK product acquisition.
  • Experience with regulators, particularly DOSR.
  • Experience with MIL-STD 882E, DSA02 OME, MoD standard Def Stan 00-56 and navigating international and UK legislation.
  • Experience in the development of Safety Case reports, assessing Safety Case validity and safety assurance including ALARP
  • Experience within the marine environment is desirable
What do I need before I apply
  • Valid SC Clearance. Sole UK Nationality.
Benefits
  • Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
  • We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
  • ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
  • Competitive company benefits
  • Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

Disability Commitment
  • As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
    • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
    • Communicating and promoting vacancies
    • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
    • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
    • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive