Product Safety Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Bristol is looking for a Product Safety Engineer. The role involves ensuring safety and compliance for complex engineering projects, supporting UK defence and export customers. Candidates should have a degree in Engineering and familiarity with relevant safety standards. This full-time position offers a hybrid working model, competitive salary with benefits, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to assist in critical mission systems safety.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to health services

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefits

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience in safety engineering in a high-integrity or regulated environment (defence, aerospace, etc.).
• Familiarity with safety standards relevant to mission systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for systems.
• Provide expert advice on compliance with safety engineering processes.
• Develop and maintain Safety Case Reports and supporting analyses.

Skills

Safety standards legislation knowledge

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Stakeholder engagement skills

Education

Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline

Registration as a Professional Engineer

Job description

Job Title: Product Safety Engineer

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Product Safety Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol site.

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.

• Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for systems and subsystems.
• Provide expert advice on safety engineering processes and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Support the integration of safety into system design and development activities and participate in design reviews, audits, and safety working groups.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients, to ensure safety requirements are met.
• 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).
• 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

• Familiarity with safety standards and legislation relevant to mission systems.
• Good verbal and written communication, analytical, problem‑solving skills and stakeholder engagement skills.
• 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

• Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer working towards Incorporated and Chartered Engineer.

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. 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: 29/01/2026