Product Safety Assurance Engineer
Systems Engineering and Assessment Limited · Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
FULL TIME
Job Description
About The Role
If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. The Product Safety Assurance Engineer will provide independent and proportionate assurance across products, systems, and engineering lifecycle activities within the Product Safety Engineering Team .
Product Safety Assurance Engineer can be based out of either our Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple site. This role does require being onsite 2 days a week with monthly visits to our Barnstaple site.
The salary for this role is Circa £65k depending on experience.
What you'll be doing Lead Product Assurance activities across the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, regulatory, safety, and quality requirements from concept through to in-service support.
Provide independent assurance of engineering outputs, reviewing designs, requirements, verification evidence, risks, and safety-related artefacts to ensure traceability, compliance, and fitness for purpose.
Drive continuous improvement through audits, supplier assurance, risk management, defect investigation, corrective actions, and reporting assurance status, issues, and recommendations to project and governance stakeholders.
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.
We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
Half day Fridays
Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
Health Cash Plan
All Staff Bonus
Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
Cycle to work scheme
Wellbeing Centre
Sports & Social activities
Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
Life assurance policy
Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
Private seated lunch areas
Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
Onsite showers and toiletries provision
Free onsite parking
The skills you need Experience in safety legislation, product assurance, quality assurance, systems engineering, product safety, verification and validation, or a closely related engineering discipline.
Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of assurance from concept through design, manufacture, test, acceptance, operation, and disposal.
Awareness of safety, quality, configuration management, requirements management, and verification principles.
Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of Product Assurance in ensuring compliance, quality, and risk management throughout product development.
Ability to review technical documentation, identify assurance gaps, challenge evidence quality, and support effective non-conformance and corrective action processes.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear assurance reports and collaborate across engineering, project, quality, safety, and supply-chain teams.
Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities within a controlled engineering environment while driving continuous improvement. xrexnqw
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you'd like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on Or reach out to us on
If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. The Product Safety Assurance Engineer will provide independent and proportionate assurance across products, systems, and engineering lifecycle activities within the Product Safety Engineering Team .
Product Safety Assurance Engineer can be based out of either our Beckington, Bristol or Barnstaple site. This role does require being onsite 2 days a week with monthly visits to our Barnstaple site.
The salary for this role is Circa £65k depending on experience.
What you'll be doing Lead Product Assurance activities across the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, regulatory, safety, and quality requirements from concept through to in-service support.
Provide independent assurance of engineering outputs, reviewing designs, requirements, verification evidence, risks, and safety-related artefacts to ensure traceability, compliance, and fitness for purpose.
Drive continuous improvement through audits, supplier assurance, risk management, defect investigation, corrective actions, and reporting assurance status, issues, and recommendations to project and governance stakeholders.
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.
We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
Half day Fridays
Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
Health Cash Plan
All Staff Bonus
Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
Cycle to work scheme
Wellbeing Centre
Sports & Social activities
Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
Life assurance policy
Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
Private seated lunch areas
Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
Onsite showers and toiletries provision
Free onsite parking
The skills you need Experience in safety legislation, product assurance, quality assurance, systems engineering, product safety, verification and validation, or a closely related engineering discipline.
Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of assurance from concept through design, manufacture, test, acceptance, operation, and disposal.
Awareness of safety, quality, configuration management, requirements management, and verification principles.
Understanding of engineering lifecycle models and the role of Product Assurance in ensuring compliance, quality, and risk management throughout product development.
Ability to review technical documentation, identify assurance gaps, challenge evidence quality, and support effective non-conformance and corrective action processes.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear assurance reports and collaborate across engineering, project, quality, safety, and supply-chain teams.
Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities within a controlled engineering environment while driving continuous improvement. xrexnqw
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you'd like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on Or reach out to us on