Job Title: Product Safety Assurance Manager – Lead Auditor
Location: Remote – Travel Required, Car Allowance provided
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits such as a Company Car, Bonuses and Family Medical Insurance
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 66400
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 Assurance Manager – Lead Auditor.
The role
As a Product Safety Assurance Manager – Lead Auditor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead audits of Safety Management Systems across the organisation, ensuring robust compliance and continuous improvement in product safety practices.
Day-to-day, you’ll be working alongside a Governance Manager, responsible for documentation and supporting risk management activities. You will also work alongside a Training Manager who identifies capability gaps across the business and delivers targeted training interventions. Together, this team plays a critical role in upholding safety standards and embedding a culture of assurance throughout Babcock’s global operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver internal audits of Safety Management Systems across multiple business units.
- Provide expert assurance on product safety compliance, risk mitigation, and regulatory alignment.
- Collaborate with the Governance and Training Managers to support documentation, risk management, and training initiatives.
- Develop and execute audit plans, conduct assessments, and produce detailed reports with actionable recommendations.
- Engage with senior stakeholders to promote a proactive safety culture and drive continuous improvement.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week with remote and flexible working arrangements.
Essential experience for the Product Safety Assurance Manager – Lead Auditor
- You must have experience as an auditor either on Safety Management Systems or Business Management Systems.
Qualifications for the Product Safety Assurance Manager – Lead Auditor
- You must have a formal Lead Auditor qualification.
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 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 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: 28/08/2025
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