Senior Product Safety Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Senior Product Safety Engineer, ensuring the safety and compliance of critical defence systems across various UK sites, with a focus on mission-critical systems for both domestic and export clients.
// Key Responsibilities
- Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for complex engineering projects.
- Provide expert advice on safety engineering processes and regulatory compliance.
- Develop and maintain Safety Case Reports and supporting analyses.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients.
- Requires experience in safety engineering within high-integrity environments.
- Must be a sole UK national eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Senior Product Safety Engineer at Babcock, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and compliance of our mission-critical systems. This position supports both UK defence and export customers, working across a variety of complex engineering projects.
Your responsibilities will include contributing to the development, assessment, and assurance of safety throughout the system lifecycle. Projects span strategic communications, tactical communications, weapon handling & launching systems, and many other complex systems.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- Participate in design reviews, audits, and safety working groups.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients, to ensure safety requirements are met.
- 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).
- Apply a detailed understanding of hazard analysis and safety evaluation processes.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Familiarity with safety standards and legislation.
- Good verbal and written communication, analytical, problem-solving skills, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience in safety engineering within a high-integrity or regulated environment (e.g., defence, automotive, aerospace, rail or nuclear).
- Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Working Arrangements
This is a full-time, permanent role working 37 hours per week. It involves flexible travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly/monthly basis, alongside home working arrangements.
Security Clearance Requirements
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.