Job Title: Product Safety Lead
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Car Allowance, Bonus and Priviate Medical
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 70460
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 covering Babcock sites across the UK.
The Role
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:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all product safety matters, ensuring compliance and effective communication across teams.
- Develop, implement, and manage the Product Safety Management System (PSMS) and associated safety artifacts, including safety case reports and hazard analyses.
- Conduct and oversee safety assessments such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- Collaborate with Product Safety Leads to share insights, best practices, and drive continuous improvement in safety measures.
- Represent and facilitate Babcock’s Product Safety Review Board, monitoring performance and recommending enhancements to safety processes.
This position is home based with regular travel to internal and exterfnal sites across the UK. This role is full time, 37 hours per week.
Essential Experience of the Product Safety Lead
- A good knowledge of general engineering principles.
- Significant experience in risk management and the development and application of safety management policy and process.
Qualifications for the Product Safety Lead
- A degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering field.
Security Clearance
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)
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: 28/01/2026
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