Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer in the UK to provide critical support for naval ship projects. This role involves maintaining safety standards, providing engineering documentation, and attending hazard meetings. Ideal candidates have an engineering degree, relevant certifications, and experience in safety processes. A hybrid work model is offered, allowing 2 days onsite and 3 days from home. Candidates must achieve Security Clearance.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• 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, HazOp, and FME(C)A.

Responsibilities

• Provide safety and environmental engineering support across design, build, launch, and trials.
• Provide input on non-conformances and design changes.
• Develop and maintain hazard logs and attend hazard identification meetings.
• Author technical documentation such as Ship System Safety & Environmental Case Reports.
• Support colleagues in developing safety and environmental assessments.

Skills

Safety and environmental assessment

Claims/Arguments/Evidence techniques

SWIFT techniques

HazOp experience

FME(C)A knowledge

Education

Degree in engineering discipline

Defence Maritime Regulator’s SEMT or SSMO certification

Membership of relevant institution

Job description

Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD Bristol, GB, BS11 0YA

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid (2 days onsite, 3 days working from home)

Job Title: Senior Safety and Environmental Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69707

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 a Senior 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.

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, HazOp, 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

• 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.