Hybrid Senior Safety Engineer

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Senior Safety Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £51,941 - £63,443 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Devonport, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Safety Engineer delivering engineering excellence for the Type 26 Class Managed Equipment programme at Babcock. Ensuring compliance with MOD policy, safety and environmental legislation for national security and sustainability.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (or extensive relevant experience).
• Preferably hold Defence Maritime Regulator’s 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).

Benefits

• 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.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's 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.