𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠? According to recent data from LinkedIn, the number of safety engineers working in the aerospace sector in the United Kingdom is down 57% compared to 12 months ago. Let's have a look at the potential reasons for this. 🔎 The main contributing factor for this is that engineers are moving to different industries. For example, the number of safety engineers in the defence sector is up 29% in the past 12 months and across all industries the number of safety engineers in work has increased by 4%. Where the skills for safety engineering are transferable, a number of engineers are making the move into other sectors to explore new projects and adhering to different industry standards. It is important to keep on top of these trends to understand in which sectors opportunities are opening for safety engineers and which industries are growing within safety engineering. What do you think is the main reason for the decrease of safety engineers in the aerospace sector? #SafetyEngineering #Aerospace #IndustryTrends
The demography may play a role. Boomers are about to retire in large numbers.
Great insight thanks for sharing! To me one of the reasons people may be moving to other industry is just better pay, unfortunately civil aerospace does not pay best rates/salaries. By simply moving to defense, marine, rail, nuclear or automotive, you can have significant increase in your income. I'm going to say that cheap airplane tickets are here to blame as well, civil aerospace operates on razor thin margins and if it won't change over time, this trend will continue. The other factor is the lack of any major civil aircraft program from Airbus/Boeing in this economic cycle, UAM helped with demand for safety engineers but that's not enough to keep people in this industry.
Down 57%?!? Surely that is a major problem?
That is a crazy drop in such a short timescale. I wonder if the emergence of new sectors in recent years has had an effect on this? There are lots of safety concerns that need to be addressed in Hydrogen and electric aerospace in order to obtain TC's.
From what I’ve experienced it maybe just the title safety engineer. I find in many industries a safety engineer (assuming we are talking about functional safety) are often put into the bracket of C&I which in my opinion is incorrect. Therefore, other engineering disciplines are carrying out the role of a safety engineer which might skew the numbers. FS engineering is a discipline in itself not a bolt on. So in the defence sector FS engineering is becoming more recognised as its own discipline which may contribute to the rise in numbers.
Perhaps not that surprising, the major Civil aircraft manufacturers aren't developing any significant new platforms, just doing mid life updates to existing platforms, and the focus and funding has switched to defence, space, energy and other more sustainable transport areas. The engineers will follow the money, and growth opportunities.
57% is a huge drop and is a concern!
57% is a very large amount, wow!
MRAeS -- Naval / Defence / Aerospace -- Functional & System Safety Engineering.
6moHi, would be really keen to see the data on this? also the post reads a bit AI to me but may be me being overly sceptical!