# Lead Safety Engineer

Job Description: Your impact Want to use your safety engineering expertise to influence the next generation of Combat Air capability? At Leonardo, we are looking for an experienced Lead Safety Engineer to join our Combat Air team, providing safety leadership across the development and integration of advanced airborne platforms, mission systems, sensors, weapons and support solutions. You will play a key role throughout the system lifecycle, ensuring safety risks are identified, understood and effectively managed while supporting airworthiness, certification and successful programme delivery. What you will do as a Lead Safety Engineer: Lead safety engineering activities across complex Combat Air programmes. Develop and maintain Safety Cases, Hazard Logs and safety management plans. Lead and oversee safety assessments including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Preliminary Hazard Analyses (PHA), System Hazard Analyses (SHA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) and FMEA/FMECA. Define and manage safety requirements, ensuring traceability through design, integration and verification. Provide safety engineering guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers, helping embed safety

- **Id**: 3815898
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-lead-safety-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Luton, United Kingdom, Lincoln, United Kingdom, Southampton, United Kingdom, Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T16:02:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T06:26:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6065
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 201
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.94
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **MBSE** — Optional: no
- **MIL-STD-882** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T16:02:23Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:10, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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