Hybrid Product Safety Engineer

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Product Safety Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United Kingdom

About the role

• Product Safety Engineer ensuring safety and compliance of mission-critical systems at Babcock. Working on complex engineering projects while liaising with MOD clients and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Play a critical role in ensuring the safety and compliance of mission-critical systems, supporting both UK defence and export customers.
• Work on a variety of complex engineering projects, contributing to the development, assessment, and assurance of safety across the system lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain Safety Case Reports, including supporting analyses such as Hazard Analysis and Functional Failure Analysis, ensuring compliance with relevant standards (e.g., DEF STAN 00-56).
• Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for systems and subsystems.
• Provide expert advice on safety engineering processes and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Support the integration of safety into system design and development activities and participate in design reviews, audits, and safety working groups.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients, to ensure safety requirements are met.

Requirements

• Experience in safety engineering within a high-integrity or regulated environment (e.g., defence, automotive, aerospace, rail or nuclear).
• Familiarity with safety standards and legislation relevant to mission systems.
• Good verbal and written communication, analytical, problem-solving skills and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer working towards Incorporated and Chartered Engineer.
• The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• 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.
• ‘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