Senior Safety Engineer

We Served; Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to ensure compliance with safety and environmental legislation for advanced naval projects. This hybrid position allows work from anywhere in the UK, requiring strong leadership skills and a relevant engineering degree. The successful candidate will provide safety support for key military projects and gain access to extensive employee benefits, promoting a safe and secure environment for all staff.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Reservists in armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong leadership, management, and facilitation skills.
• Proven track record of delivering outputs to quality, time, and budget.
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn and develop.

Responsibilities

• Providing professional safety and environmental engineering support to T26 projects.
• Delivering safety and environmental case input for non-conformances and design changes.
• Supporting Warship Technical Authority team members with expertise.
• Escalating and communicating project risks.
• Acting as Equipment Technical Authority for customer support.

Skills

Leadership and management skills

Decision-making skills

Project delivery within quality and budget

Commitment to design safety

Self-motivation and desire to learn

Education

Degree in engineering or extensive relevant experience

Defence Maritime Regulator’s SEMT or SSMO certification

Membership of a relevant institution

Job description

Job Title: Senior Safety Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, Rosyth, Fife, Bristol or Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70017

Create a Safer Future with Babcock

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 Engineer. This role can be operated from anywhere in the UK.

The role

As a Senior Safety Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of delivering engineering excellence for the Type 26 Class Managed Equipment (CME) programme. This is an exciting opportunity to shape through-life support solutions for one of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships. Your work will ensure compliance with MOD policy and safety and environmental legislation, making a real difference to national security and sustainability.

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

• Providing professional safety and environmental engineering support to T26 transition-to-service projects.
• Delivering safety and environmental case input for non-conformances and design changes.
• Supporting other members of the Warship Technical Authority team with your expertise.
• Escalating and communicating project risks in the safety and environmental domain.
• Acting as Equipment Technical Authority for through-life customer support.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. This role can be operated from anywhere in the UK.

Essential experience of the Senior Safety Engineer:

• Strong leadership, management, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to make decisions within your area of responsibility.
• Proven track record of delivering outputs to quality, time, and budget.
• Commitment to design safety and willingness to challenge when necessary.
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn and develop.

Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer:

• Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (or extensive relevant experience).
• 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) 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 portalPayment 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: 07/01/2026