Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer to provide professional safety and environmental support for naval projects. This role includes developing hazard logs and authoring technical documentation. Candidates should have an engineering background and relevant safety experience. Benefits include a generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, and professional development opportunities. The position offers 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

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Engineering background with relevant safety and environmental experience.
• Experience with Claims/Arguments/Evidence techniques for safety arguments.
• Awareness of safety assessment techniques.

Responsibilities

• Provide safety and environmental engineering support across naval projects.
• Influence designs for safety outcomes.
• Develop and maintain hazard logs.

Skills

Engineering background

Safety and environmental assessment/management

Using Claims/Arguments/Evidence techniques

Techniques such as SWIFT, HazOpS, and FME(C)A

Education

Degree in engineering discipline

Defence Maritime Regulator’s SEMT or SSMO certification

Membership of relevant institution

Job description

Job Title: Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, Rosyth, Fife or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Drive safety and environmental excellence across cutting-edge naval projects.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer at one of our Babcock sites.

The role

As aSenior Safety and Environmental Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide professional safety and environmental engineering support to naval ship projects, influencing designs that meet stringent safety and environmental standards. From hazard identification to technical documentation, your work will help deliver world-class vessels that protect national security and meet sustainability goals — all while advancing your own career in a dynamic, innovative environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Work as part of a team to provide safety and environmental engineering support across design, build, launch, and trials.
• Provide input on non-conformances and design changes to influence safety outcomes.
• Develop and maintain hazard logs and attend hazard identification and review meetings.
• Author technical documentation such as Ship System Safety & Environmental Case Reports.
• Support colleagues in developing safety and environmental assessments or cases.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

• Engineering background with experience in safety and environmental assessment/management processes.
• Experience using Claims/Arguments/Evidence techniques for safety and environmental arguments.
• Awareness or experience of techniques such as SWIFT, HazOpS, and FME(C)A.

Qualifications for the Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

• Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (extensive relevant experience considered).
• Preferably hold Defence Maritime Regulator’s SEMT or SSMO certification (training can be arranged).
• Membership of a relevant institution (e.g., IExpE, IMechE, RINA, IET, SARS) and Chartered or Incorporated status (or working towards).

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 (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: 06/01/2026