Senior Safety Engineer

Applies Engineering concepts and theories to deliver the development designs, calculations and technical solutions across a range of applications for Babcock products and services across the Engineering Product Lifecycle. An experienced Engineer, directly accountable for designs, calculations and technical solutions. Able to work under own initiative to produce high quality outputs. Capable of managing others and/or delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience. Can apply a wider range of knowledge to complex situations. Provides mentoring to others.

Job Title: Senior Safety Engineer

Location: Bristol + Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £65,981 Depending on experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71506

Lead Safety Engineering That Protects the UK's Submarine Capability

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 Safety Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard sites.

The role

As a Senior Safety Engineer, you'll play a vital part in ensuring the safe operation and continued availability of the UK's submarine fleet. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to nationally important programmes that safeguard the country's continuous at sea nuclear deterrent.

Day-to-day, you'll join our Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) team, where your technical leadership will guide complex safety engineering tasks, support system changes, and influence major engineering decisions that underpin defence capability.

• Leading safety management activities and delivering high quality technical outputs aligned with the current support contract framework.
• Producing reviews and providing technical assurance on complex documentation.
• Representing SSE at safety meetings and committees, working with a broad network of internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing safety related project activities while adapting to changing priorities across engineering programmes.
• Mentoring and developing Safety Engineers across the organisation, helping to advance capability and best practice.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Safety Engineer

• Strong understanding of Safety and Environmental Management principles within the submarine environment.
• Experience in submarine operations or demonstrable knowledge of submarine systems and engineering principles.
• Project management experience, including delivery of technical outputs within contractual frameworks.
• Proven technical report writing capability on complex engineering topics.
• Understanding of Federated Safety Cases and associated artefacts.

Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a STEM discipline.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status, or actively progressing toward chartership.

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 ().

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.

Babcock

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 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: 05/03/2026