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: SF
Create a Safer Future with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re 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, you’ll 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 Navy’s 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, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Providing professional safety and environmental engineering support to T26 transition-to-service projects.
2. Delivering safety and environmental case input for non-conformances and design changes.
3. Supporting other members of the Warship Technical Authority team with your expertise.
4. Escalating and communicating project risks in the safety and environmental domain.
5. 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:
6. Strong leadership, management, and facilitation skills.
7. Ability to make decisions within your area of responsibility.
8. Proven track record of delivering outputs to quality, time, and budget.
9. Commitment to design safety and willingness to challenge when necessary.
10. Self-motivated with a desire to learn and develop.
Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer:
11. Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (or extensive relevant experience).
12. Preferably hold Defence Maritime Regulator’s SEMT or SSMO certification (training can be arranged).
13. 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 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
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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.
22. ‘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
23. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.