Safety Manager - Future Combat Air

Responsibilities

• Be part of the future of combat air capability!
• Within Team Tempest, Leonardo UK is at the forefront of developing next-generation Integrated Sensor and Non-Kinetic Effects (ISANKE) and Integrated Communications Systems (ICS) technologies for the Future Combat Air (FCA) programme.
• Working across multiple Lines of Business, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe integration of complex sensing, communications and mission systems onto a Flight Test Aircraft (FTA), helping to shape the future of air combat capability.

Requirements

• In this highly influential role, you will:
• Lead the safety engineering approach across the integrated ISANKE and ICS Technology Demonstrator Programme
• Provide specialist safety advice to support product authorization activities in line with company processes
• Drive a consistent and coherent safety strategy across multiple subsystem teams and stakeholders
• Review and integrate subsystem safety analyses into the overall system-level assessment
• Identify, analyse and mitigate functional and intrinsic hazards to ensure residual risks are reduced to ALARP levels
• Define and manage safety requirements across system and subsystem levels
• Ensure aircraft-level safety analysis aligns with ISANKE and ICS system safety activities
• Support major design reviews and contribute directly to safety documentation where required
• Mentor and guide safety engineers, helping to build capability across the programme
• You'll thrive in this role if you:
• Are comfortable operating across complex systems with multiple interfaces, dependencies and stakeholders
• Have strong experience with aircraft-level safety regulations, processes and analysis
• Can apply a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach while maintaining technical integrity
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, project and design integrity teams
• Have experience leading or guiding system safety approaches within complex aerospace or defence programmes
• Enjoy working collaboratively to solve technically challenging problems
• This is more than a safety role - it's an opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious and technologically advanced aerospace programmes.
• You'll work alongside industry-leading engineers and experts, helping to define the safety standards and integrated capabilities that will shape the future of combat air systems.
• If you're passionate about systems safety, complex integration and next-generation aerospace innovation, we'd love to hear from you.
• This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.
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• Why join us
• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance : All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning : Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks : Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.
• For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.
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