https://jobs.co.uk/job/principal-safety-engineer-matchtech--59c7e754-c2ed-4bc1-ac42-b9297b111c40 RSS feed for Principal Safety Engineer at Matchtech. en-gb Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:02:31 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/principal-safety-engineer-matchtech--59c7e754-c2ed-4bc1-ac42-b9297b111c40 https://jobs.co.uk/job/principal-safety-engineer-matchtech--59c7e754-c2ed-4bc1-ac42-b9297b111c40 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Location: Southampton | Salary: £78/hour | Type: Contract | Location: Southampton (mostly onsite) Duration: 6 month contract Rate: -78ph UMB (Inside IR35) Role details: We are looking for a Lead/Principal System Safety Engineer to support our defence client in Southampton - the role will focus on safety engineering across integrated sensing, communications and non-kinetic effects systems being developed for test, development and demonstration. Key Responsibilities: Provide specialist safety engineering advice to support product safety authorisation in accordance with established processes Ensure programme safety activities follow the safety management plan and that all analysis is complete, accurate and appropriately documented Identify and analyse intrinsic and functional hazards, developing mitigation strategies to reduce residual safety risks to an ALARP level Elicit system safety requirements and ensure their effective flow-down to the appropriate engineering teams Review subsystem safety analyses and incorporate the findings into integrated system safety assessments Review aircraft-level safety analysis and ensure alignment with the integrated system safety assessment Lead the delivery of safety artefacts, ident... Contract