Senior Safety Engineer

Bristol - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior Safety Engineer

Location: Devonport Plymouth Rosyth Fife Bristol or Helensburgh Argyll and Bute Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70017

Create a Safer Future with Babcock

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Senior Safety Engineer. This role can be operated from anywhere in the UK.

The role

As a Senior Safety Engineer youll be at the heart of delivering engineering excellence for the Type 26 Class Managed Equipment (CME) programme. This is an exciting opportunity to shape through-life support solutions for one of the Royal Navys most advanced warships. Your work will ensure compliance with MOD policy and safety and environmental legislation making a real difference to national security and sustainability.

Day-to-day youll have the following responsibilities:

Providing professional safety and environmental engineering support to T26 transition-to-service projects.
Delivering safety and environmental case input for non-conformances and design changes.
Supporting other members of the Warship Technical Authority team with your expertise.
Escalating and communicating project risks in the safety and environmental domain.
Acting as Equipment Technical Authority for through-life customer support.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. This role can be operated from anywhere in the UK.

Essential experience of the Senior Safety Engineer:

Strong leadership management and facilitation skills.
Ability to make decisions within your area of responsibility.
Proven track record of delivering outputs to quality time and budget.
Commitment to design safety and willingness to challenge when necessary.
Self-motivated with a desire to learn and develop.

Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer:

Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (or extensive relevant experience).
Preferably hold Defence Maritime Regulators SEMT or SSMO certification (training can be arranged).
Membership of a relevant institution (e.g. IExpE IMechE RINA IET) and Chartered or Incorporated status (or working towards).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This meansthat your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth nationality current or former citizenship and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ().

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare
Employee share scheme
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working days paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations protect communities and build a better world. To continue we must adapt advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please email with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 07/01/2026

Required Experience:

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Job Title: Senior Safety EngineerLocation: Devonport Plymouth Rosyth Fife Bristol or Helensburgh Argyll and Bute Hybrid Working ArrangementsCompensation: Competitive BenefitsRole Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF70017Create a Safer Future with BabcockAt Babcock were working t...