Deputy Design and Safety Manager

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking a Deputy Design and Safety Manager in Plymouth. The role involves oversight of nuclear safety designs and engineering leadership. Candidates must have a degree in an Engineering or Scientific discipline and significant experience in nuclear engineering. The role offers competitive salary and extensive benefits such as generous holidays and pension schemes.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for armed forces reservists

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven interpersonal and leadership capabilities in complex environments.
• Deep understanding of nuclear engineering and high-integrity outputs.
• Extensive knowledge of submarine infrastructure and operational authorisations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that controls and maintains design integrity.
• Oversee design and safety artefacts formation.
• Approve lifecycle activities from manufacture to decommissioning.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain and review reference design integrity.

Skills

Leadership

Nuclear engineering expertise

Strong communication skills

Technical knowledge

Education

Degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline

Job description

Job Title: Deputy Design and Safety Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Competitive salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead the Future of Nuclear Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Deputy Design and Safety Manager at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.

The Role

As a Deputy Design and Safety Manager, you’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most critical defence programmes, supporting the Continuous At Sea Deterrent. This is a senior engineering leadership role within our Design Authority function, where you’ll help maintain the design integrity and safety of nuclear and critical infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead a team that controls and maintains the design integrity and the overall basis for safety of its nuclear and critical activities, throughout their lifecycle.

• Overseeing and accepting design and safety artefacts to form the reference design
• Approving activities across the lifecycle – from manufacture to decommissioning
• Maintaining and periodically reviewing the reference design to ensure integrity
• Assessing deviations and instructing corrective actions to maintain compliance
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders (Design Leads, Safety Leads, MoD) and external partners (Regulators, Design Houses)

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential Experience

• Leading engineering teams with strong technical and communication skills
• Deep understanding of nuclear engineering and high-integrity outputs
• Extensive knowledge of submarine infrastructure and operational authorisations
• Proven interpersonal and leadership capabilities in complex environments

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in an Engineering or Scientific discipline
• Chartered status is highly desirable

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.

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.
• ‘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.

Babcock International is a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.