Principal Safety Engineer

Babcock; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Safety Engineer, where your expertise will contribute to the safety and security of critical assets. This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects, enhancing your skills in safety management and risk analysis. With flexible hybrid working arrangements and opportunities for professional development, you will be at the forefront of ensuring compliance and safety in a highly regulated environment. Be part of a team that values innovation and collaboration, making a real impact in the defence sector.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in systems safety assessment of complex systems.
• Familiarity with safety management systems and risk analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance customers’ defence and security capabilities.
• Develop Safety Cases and Hazard Identification.

Skills

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Safety Management Systems

Risk Analysis Tools

Safety Case Development

Education

Degree in STEM

Membership of a Professional Body

Tools

Safety Assessment Tools

Engineering Safety Management Plans

Job description

Job Title: Principal Safety Engineer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63595

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Safety Engineer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol and across other UK sites.

The Role
As a Principal Safety Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of projects allowing you to further develop your expertise and knowledge for progression.

Day-to-day, as a Principal Safety Engineer, you’ll support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

• Demonstrate strong problem solving and analytical skills, applying knowledge and experience.
• Be familiar with safety management systems and risk analysis tools.
• Implement Engineering safety management plans.
• Convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop and create Safety Cases, Safety Requirements, Hazard Identification and Analysis, including application of the ALARP principle and legislative awareness.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with working days onsite and working days working from home. The role also requires the candidate to travel across other UK sites when the project demands.

Essential experience of the Principal Safety Engineer

• Have been involved in the systems safety assessment and assurance of complex systems.
• Applied various safety tools and techniques including assessment.
• Experience of managing safety programs across the product lifecycle working in a highly regulated environment.
• Demonstration of producing and reviewing product safety management plans.

Qualifications for the Principal Safety Engineer

• Hold a degree in a STEM subject or have relevant engineering experience. Other qualifications, combined with experience, may also be considered.
• Hold membership of a registered professional body.

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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit
• ‘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: 01/06/2025

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