Technical Director - Safety Engineering

Overview

Empowering projects in a complex world.

Are you ready to play a pivotal technical leadership role supporting one of our most strategically important safety framework partnerships? Join a team where your technical authority directly influences client confidence in complex, mission-critical systems across the defence sector. At AtkinsRéalis, you'll be part of a collaborative, inclusive environment where every voice is valued and where flexibility supports how you work best.

This role can be based from any of our UK offices however requires regular travel to Bristol.

We welcome professionals with deep experience in safety engineering within defence, an OEM environment, or other highly regulated safety-critical domains.

As a Technical Director – Safety Engineering, you will provide strategic technical leadership, act as a senior engineering authority, and shape the delivery of safety services across land, air, maritime and WOME (weapons, ordnance, munitions and explosives) domains. Your expertise will be central to our re-competition of a major safety framework and strengthening long-term partnerships with our most important clients.

Operating at a senior technical level rather than as a line manager, you will guide engineering approaches, assure technical quality, and influence client decision-making to ensure safety is embedded robustly and proportionately throughout system lifecycles.

You will also drive innovation across the business — integrating modern safety methods, model-based tools, and digital approaches to help us meet emerging regulatory and operational challenges.