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Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol or Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Product Safety Lead across to one of our Ashton Vale, Bristol or Ashchurch Tewkesbury sites.

As a Product Safety Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to establish and drive implementation of safety processes across our full suite of products and services that we support.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for the management of the Product Safety Management System (PSMS) and providing support to project teams adherence to it as well as:

• Serving as the primary point of contact for product safety matters.
• Developing, implementing and managing the PSMS and safety artifacts, including safety case reports, safety requirement and Hazard Identification and Analysis plus awareness of Functional Hazard Assessments (FHS), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) etc.
• Collaborating with other Product Safety Leads to share insights and best practices.
• Monitoring, reviewing, and recommending improvements to Babcock’s safety measures.
• Representing Babcock at the sector Product Safety review board.
• Facilitating the Product Safety review board.

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role. This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

• A good knowledge and experience of mechanical or electrical engineering principles.
• Significant experience in risk management and the development and application of safety management policy and process.

• A degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering field.

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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)

• 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 FeesReservists 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

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 09/01/2026

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