Job Title: Senior Product Safety Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £44,600 to £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69823
Help Shape Safety at the Heart of the UK’s Nuclear Engineering Future
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 Senior Product Safety Engineer at our Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol site.
As a Senior Product Safety Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary, you’ll play a pivotal role in strengthening Product Safety capability across our Nuclear Sector, supporting major naval and civil nuclear programmes. This is an opportunity to influence engineering safety from concept through to delivery - ensuring systems are safe by design, compliant with legislation, and underpinned by strong governance.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Support the development, implementation and maintenance of Product Safety management arrangements across nuclear programmes
- Provide expert guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment, safety justification and compliance with legislation and standards
- Develop and review Product Safety Management Plans and associated safety documentation
- Influence engineering teams and stakeholders to embed best practice and drive continuous improvement
- Contribute to assurance, audit and governance activities, reporting safety metrics and supporting improvement actions
This is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport or Bristol. Hybrid working patterns are available. You will work a minimum of two days a week on site.
Essential experience of the Senior Product Safety Engineer:
- Experience working with safety management systems in high-hazard or high-consequence industries
- Understanding of UK civil and defence safety legislation and standards
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Knowledge of change management and project environments
- A proactive, resilient approach to continuous improvement
Qualifications for the Senior Product Safety Engineer:
- Degree or higher in a STEM discipline
- Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards (Desirable)
- APM Foundation qualification (Desirable)
- Lean Six Sigma White Belt (Desirable)
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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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: 28/04/2026
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