Head of Safety and Certification

Overview

As Head of Safety and Certification, you lead the System Safety, Certification and Environmental disciplines across Raytheon UK’s portfolio, ensuring compliance with standards and regulations. You mentor a specialist team and shape how safety, certification and environmental considerations are integrated into product development. You engage with stakeholders to sustain safe, compliant delivery of mission-critical systems. This senior role offers impact across bids, programmes and external audits, within a world-class aerospace and defence context.

Responsibilities

• Maintain System Safety policies and procedures aligned with standards and RTX/Raytheon policy
• Manage System Safety resources to meet business needs, cost and schedule
• Lead and guide System Safety workshops and assessments
• Review and approve System Safety documentation
• Maintain Product Safety procedures and engage with Product Safety Managers and Advisors
• Ensure Product Safety resources are available in collaboration with Heads of Engineering
• Review and approve Product Safety documentation
• Review and approve certification documentation (Plans, Declarations, Certificates) and maintain certification records
• Maintain environmental policies and provide timely specialist advice
• Manage environmental resources and lead environmental workshops and assessments
• Review and approve environmental documentation
• Champion engineering best practices and perform audits/reviews
• Lead technical input into bids/proposals, identifying risks and opportunities
• Represent Raytheon UK as a senior technical authority with customers and stakeholders
• Engage with forums to stay abreast of domain developments
• Support external audits and participate in Certification Board activities
• Lead audits of safety and environmental programmes and assist during bidding and compliance processes

Key requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Physics or other relevant subject
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership
• Track record of developing safety and environmental cases to standards (Def Stan 00-056, 00-055, 00-051)
• Proven leadership of specialist engineering teams in mission-critical product development
• Broad technical expertise across engineering functions
• Experience in assessing and assuring products with safety-related software functions
• Strong coaching, mentoring and talent development abilities
• Strategic, structured problem solving and decision-making
• Highly dependable, autonomous and results-driven
• Eligible for SC clearance with potential for DV clearance

• Coaching and mentoring
• Strategic thinking
• Problem-solving
• System Safety engineering
• Product Safety management
• Certification processes and documentation

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