Product Safety Engineer

Full Job Description

Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.

The RD&D Product Safety Engineer will be required to Lead the development and maintenance of product safety and environmental documentation in accordance with MOD standards (e.g., JSP 520, JSP 482), and national legislation (e.g., Explosives Regulations 2014, HSE guidance).

The responsibilities of the role include (but are not limited to):

• Conduct hazard identification (HAZID), hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP), fault tree analysis (FTA), event tree analysis (ETA), and other appropriate system safety methodologies

• Develop and maintain Safety Cases, Safety Assessment Reports (SARs), and Hazard Logs in line with Defence Standard 00-56.

• Provide input to Design Reviews (PDRs, CDRs) ensuring that safety and environmental considerations are fully integrated into the product design.

• Collaborate with chemists, engineers, test specialists, and external safety bodies to ensure safety controls are engineered, tested, and validated.

• Advise on safe handling, storage, transport, and disposal procedures for energetic materials and articles.

• Support trials safety planning and reviews, including risk assessments and range safety submissions.

• Monitor and interpret changes to applicable safety and environmental standards and legislation and ensure ongoing compliance.

• Lead internal audits and prepare safety-related inputs for external regulatory inspections or MOD reviews.

• Support training and mentoring of junior staff in safety engineering practices and regulatory expectations.

RD&D Product Safety Engineer Specification:

• Right to live and work in the UK, with ability to obtain SC level clearance

• Must have continually resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years

• Level 6 Honors Degree or commensurate experience in Engineering, Chemistry or other relevant discipline

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working towards registration is advantageous

• Experience in safety engineering within an explosives, defence, aerospace, or high-hazard industry

• Knowledge pf Risk Assessments

• Working within multi-functional teams

This role will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30. Flexibility in this role is critical to the success of supporting the team.

About Chemring Countermeasures

Chemring Countermeasures has a culture built on our values of Safety, Excellence and Innovation. We continue our investment in the very best people to contribute to our delivery of highly reliable solutions. We are seeking individuals who are not only of the highest calibre for today’s business but have the capability to perform at even higher standards to meet the needs of tomorrow’s threats facing our armed forces.

We have more than 50 years’ experience at the forefront of Radio Frequency (RF) and Infrared (IR) expendable decoy research, design and manufacture, we operate at the leading edge of expendable countermeasure technology.

What is offered:

• We actively encourage an open and collaborative culture across our site through the recognised suggestion scheme and reward and recognition scheme

• 5.5 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays

• A generous pension scheme

• Share save scheme

• Holiday buying and selling scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes dietary advice, wellbeing initiatives, family matters and counselling support

• We hold annual social events

• Cultural days

• Free on-site parking

• Podiatrist

• Weekly fruit baskets

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud to support the armed forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom.

If this position is of interest, please contact our Recruitment Team with an up-to-date CV.

Please note: We do not engage with recruitment agencies. We kindly ask that you refrain from sending speculative inquiries or CVs. Should we wish to collaborate with agencies, we will initiate contact accordingly.

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