Independent Peer Review Manager

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Plymouth is seeking an Independent Peer Review Manager to oversee safety standards in nuclear operations. You will manage a team of specialists, ensuring compliance and conducting independent reviews. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in safety engineering and relevant qualifications. The role offers a competitive salary and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in safety-related engineering within high-hazard industries.
• Strong understanding of naval base infrastructure and submarine engineering.
• Expertise in safety analysis, including probabilistic and deterministic assessments.

Responsibilities

• Manage Independent Peer Review department staff and external contractors.
• Act as the Intelligent Customer for reviews undertaken by contract staff.
• Train and develop team skills to meet future corporate needs.

Skills

Safety-related engineering

Naval base infrastructure

Safety analysis

Safety case principles

Fault schedules management

Education

Level 6 STEM qualification

Chartered membership of an Engineering Institution

Job description

Job Title: Independent Peer Review Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69843

Lead Assurance and Safety Excellence in Nuclear Operations

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as the Independent Peer Review Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As the Independent Peer Review Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a unique opportunity to influence safety standards, shape methodologies, and contribute to projects that protect national security while advancing your career in a highly specialised field.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring nuclear safety and compliance across one of the UK’s most complex and high-profile engineering environments. You’ll lead a team of specialists, manage independent reviews of safety cases and design changes, and provide assurance to senior leadership.

• Manage Independent Peer Review (IPR) department staff and external contractors
• Act as the Intelligent Customer for reviews undertaken by contract staff
• Train and develop team skills to meet future corporate needs
• Ensure peer review methodologies align with recognised best practice
• Oversee IPR of safety cases and design modifications, issuing reports and recommendations

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Independent Peer Review Manager

• Extensive experience in safety-related engineering within high-hazard industries
• Strong understanding of naval base infrastructure and submarine engineering
• Expertise in safety analysis, including probabilistic and deterministic assessments
• Knowledge of safety case principles, claims, arguments, and evidence
• Ability to manage fault schedules and derive safety functional requirements

Qualifications for the Independent Peer Review Manager

• Level 6 STEM qualification or Level 5 with substantial relevant experience
• Chartered membership of an Engineering, Scientific, or Environmental Institution

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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 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

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 [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.

Closing date: 08/12/2025

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