Systems Safety Engineer Graduate

Frazer Nash; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Frazer-Nash is seeking graduates to join our Safety and Assurance teams, including Naval Safety and Naval Nuclear Assurance, across UK sites.

You will work on defence projects, develop technical knowledge through the CADMID lifecycle, and contribute to safety and reliability assessments.

From day one you will have responsibility, collaborate with experts and clients, and access training to grow your consultancy and engineering skills.

Job description

Closing date: Friday 27th November 2026 We encourage early applications, as vacancies may close once we receive sufficient applications.

Who we are Frazer-Nash are a leading engineering, systems and technology consultancy. Through our meaningful innovations, our experts help organisations make lives securer, safer, sustainable and affordable. In a nutshell, engineering consultancy is all about providing advice to positively impact our clients' projects and businesses and the wider world around us.

Why Frazer-Nash? The world and our clients have lots of problems and we get a kick out of finding engineering and technology solutions to these problems. As a graduate, you will be working on multiple projects simultaneously, managing your time and accruing a wealth of experience and skills. No two days in Frazer-Nash will be the same. Our people are at the very heart of what we do, they are the reason our clients work with us to solve some of their biggest challenges. At Frazer-Nash, we want all our people to feel they belong, confident in the knowledge that we value and respect the commitment they have made by entrusting their careers and expertise to us.

The role There are roles within our Safety and Assurance focused teams at Frazer-Nash which consist of: Naval Safety and Assurance (Bristol/Plymouth/Portsmouth) Naval Nuclear Assurance (Plymouth) Each of these teams brings together a wide range of civil and military engineering experience and you will be an integral part of the team you join.

If you have a strong interest in joining a particular team described above, please let us know within your covering letter and application. Regardless of which team you join, you'll be able to develop your technical knowledge throughout the Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In-service and Disposal (CADMID) phases of major defence projects; be they in the Land, Sea, Air or even Space domain. You may be finding the missing piece of the design puzzle, helping manage safety and assurance during build and delivery, solving real-time in-service issues, or helping our clients overcome ever more complex material degradation and ageing issues as military capabilities near the end of their design life.

We help our clients understand and overcome safety and regulatory challenges associated with deploying cutting-edge technologies, such has those involving autonomy, or the use of novel sustainable fuels to help the drive towards net-zero.

Here are just a few of the challenges we are trying to solve:

• Supporting the next generation of future attack submarines by conducting hazard assessments to help the MoD understand and mitigate the risk presented to the crew from fire and flood scenarios.
• Providing Safety Management expertise to Babcock in support of the Royal Navy's Type 31 programme.
• Supporting the development of critical naval infrastructure and facilities.
• Assuring safety and legislative compliance for the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft programme, including certification and assurance for safety of the art upgrades.
• Safety managing lifesaving dismounted soldiers' equipment for the future battlefield.
• Providing safety support to the manufacture of state of the art battlefield bridging equipment world-wide; Australia, Germany, Singapore and Canada.
• Providing an Independent Technical Evaluation service to major widebody aircraft programmes.

As part of the wider business area, you will work with experts from across the company and get a taste of what goes on in different areas of the business. Our graduates will gain exposure and experience in the huge variety of our work, and the chance to explore where their own skills and interests lie, whether that be a leadership or technical path. At Frazer-Nash we think it is important that you gain exposure to the full project lifecycle and all aspects of our business.

You will be given appropriate responsibility from day one, working as part of a project team, interacting with team members and clients as required in order to deliver solutions.

As part of the Frazer-Nash Capability function we will help you develop your technical and consultancy skills, you will be given the opportunity to attend training courses which will enable you to develop technical responses to our clients challenges, produce detailed work as part of a project team and develop Project Management skills.