Job Title: Product Safety Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock, we’re working together to create a safe and secure world. By joining us as a Product Safety Engineer, you’ll play a vital role across a range of internal and external sites throughout the UK, including Tewkesbury, Corsham, Bordon and Bristol.
The Role
As a Product Safety Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and compliance of our mission-critical systems, supporting both UK defence and export customers.
You will work on a variety of complex engineering projects, contributing to the development, assessment, and assurance of safety across the system lifecycle. Our projects cover strategic communications, tactical communications, weapon handling & launching systems and many more complex systems.
1. Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for systems and subsystems.
2. Provide expert advice on safety engineering processes and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
3. Support the integration of safety into system design and development activities and participate in design reviews, audits, and safety working groups.
4. Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients, to ensure safety requirements are met.
5. Develop and maintain Safety Case Reports, including supporting analyses such as Hazard Analysis and Functional Failure Analysis, ensuring compliance with relevant standards (e.g., DEF STAN 00-56).
6. Detail understanding of hazard analysis and safety evaluation processes.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires flexible travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential Experience of the Product Safety Engineer
7. Familiarity with safety standards and legislation relevant to mission systems.
8. Good verbal and written communication, analytical, problem-solving skills and stakeholder engagement skills.
9. Experience in safety engineering within a high-integrity or regulated environment (e.g., defence, automotive, aerospace, rail or nuclear).
Qualifications for the Product Safety Engineer
10. Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 means that 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
What We Offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing