Senior Fire Safety Engineer

Babcock International; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Senior Fire Safety Engineer to join the team at HMNB Clyde Faslane. You will shape safety for critical defence assets, influence major engineering decisions, and guide design teams to strengthen safety case development in a highly complex environment.

You will provide expert advice on fire safety, review designs and identify improvements, while building strong stakeholder relationships to ensure compliant delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of fire codes, regulations and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of facility infrastructure and fire safety operations.
• Experience in fire system design.
• Experience analysing fire systems for new projects and upgrades.
• Experience conducting annual fire safety compliance audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expert advice on fire safety to internal & external design teams, the Ministry of Defence and site operators.
• Review fire system designs, upgrades and new project proposals to ensure compliance with regulations and best practice.
• Identify and address fire safety shortfalls, developing robust improvement recommendations.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure collaborative and compliant delivery.

Skills

Fire safety expertise

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Design review

Auditing experience

Education

NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety

Engineering degree with fire safety specialization

Level 4 Certificate or HNC in Fire Safety

Fire Protection Association Level 4 Diploma

Fire Alarms Modules 1 and 2

Job description

Job Title: Senior Fire Safety Engineer

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71047

The 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 Senior Fire Safety Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

As a Senior Fire Safety Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll use your specialist expertise to shape the safety of some of the UK's most critical defence assets. This is a role where your fire safety knowledge helps safeguard people, infrastructure and operations – directly supporting the Royal Navy and wider national security. You'll influence major engineering decisions, guide design teams, and strengthen safety case development across a unique and highly complex environment.

Day‑to‑day, you'll be required to:

• Provide subject matter expert advice on fire safety to internal & external design teams, the Ministry of Defence and site operators.
• Review fire system designs, upgrades and new project proposals to ensure compliance with regulations and best practice.
• Identify and address fire safety shortfalls, developing robust improvement recommendations.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure collaborative and compliant delivery.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential experience

• Strong understanding of fire codes, regulations and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of facility infrastructure and fire safety operations.
• Experience in fire system design.
• Experience analysing fire systems for new projects and upgrades.
• Experience conducting annual fire safety compliance audits.

Qualifications

• Fire Alarms Modules 1 and 2
• NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety
• Degree in Engineering with fire safety specialism – undergraduate or postgraduate
• Level 4 Certificate or HNC in Fire Safety – Fire Auditors
• Fire Protection Association Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – 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 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

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 are 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.