Product Safety Lead

Babcock International; Tewkesbury; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering contractor is seeking a Product Safety Lead to manage safety processes across its suite of products. You will oversee the Product Safety Management System and collaborate with teams to ensure compliance with safety measures. Candidates should have strong mechanical or electrical engineering knowledge, risk management experience, and a relevant engineering degree. The role offers hybrid working arrangements, a generous benefits package, and the ability to contribute to safety in significant projects.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP services

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Volunteering leave

Development opportunities and employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven experience in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• Significant risk management knowledge and safety management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Product Safety Management System (PSMS).
• Serve as the primary contact for product safety issues.
• Collaborate with other safety leads to improve practices.
• Monitor and recommend improvements to safety measures.
• Facilitate safety review boards.

Skills

Mechanical engineering principles

Electrical engineering principles

Risk management

Safety management policy

Education

Degree in engineering

Job description

As a Product Safety Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to establish and drive implementation of safety processes across our full suite of products and services that we support. Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the management of the Product Safety Management System (PSMS) and providing support to project teams adherence to it as well as:

Responsibilities

• Serving as the primary point of contact for product safety matters.
• Developing, implementing and managing the PSMS and safety artifacts, including safety case reports, safety requirement and Hazard Identification and Analysis plus awareness of Functional Hazard Assessments (FHS), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) etc.
• Collaborating with other Product Safety Leads to share insights and best practices.
• Monitoring, reviewing, and recommending improvements to Babcock's safety measures.
• Representing Babcock at the sector Product Safety review board.
• Facilitating the Product Safety review board.

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role. This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience

• A good knowledge and experience of mechanical or electrical engineering principles.
• Significant experience in risk management and the development and application of safety management policy and process.

Qualifications

• A degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering field.

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.

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 Lead across to one of our Ashton Vale, Bristol or Ashchurch Tewkesbury sites.

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).

Benefits

• 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.