Senior Safety Engineer (Ship Building)
20th Jan, 2025 Read time 5 minutes

Senior Safety Engineer (Ship Building)

Location: Plymouth, Devon
Last Updated: 20th January 2025

Full Job Description

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 Shipbuilding at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Senior Safety Engineer Shipbuilding, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We seek a Senior Safety Engineer (Shipbuilding) to produce outputs for Babcock products, which meet the safety and environmental requirements of applicable legislation and Ministry of Defence Policy. You will join a national team of over eight hundred engineers and designers within the Marine Sector of Babcock. We are a leading design consultancy providing naval architecture, marine system engineering, electrical engineering, design modelling and project support services to the marine and defence markets.

Day to day, the Senior Safety Engineer Shipbuilding will:

  • Work as part of a team to provide professional safety and environmental engineering support to naval ship projects including design, build, launch and trials
  • Provide safety and environmental input to non-conformances and design changes to influence the safety of the design
  • Authorship of technical documentation such as Ship System Safety & Environmental Case Reports
  • Attend and record hazard identification and review meetings as well as developing and maintaining hazard logs
  • Support other members of the UKME SEG in the development of safety and environmental assessments or cases

This role is a full time position and will consist of a 36 hour working week. It will be based out of Devonport with flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

This is not a Health & Safety or SHEF type role. The Senior Engineer (Safety and Environmental) is required to have an engineering background in a relevant discipline and experience in the application of safety and environmental assessment/management processes.

Experience of the Senior Safety Engineer Shipbuilding:

  • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary engineering environment
  • Good knowledge of complex engineering in ships and/or submarines or equivalent systems
  • The ability to compile / author technical reports to a high standard and quality
  • Relevant experience regarding the facilitation and recording of Hazard Identification and Assessment meetings
  • Awareness and / or experience of the following techniques: Structured What If Technique (SWIFT), Hazard and Operability Studies (HazOpS), Fault Tree Analysis, Event Tree Analysis, Failure Mode Effect & (Criticality) Analysis (FME(C)A).

Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer Shipbuilding:

  • Ideally degree qualified in an engineering discipline but extensive experience in a relevant field will be considered
  • Preferably already hold the Defence Maritime Regulator’s (DMR) Ship Safety & Environmental Management Training (SEMT) or Ship Safety Management Office (SSMO) Certification (training will be arranged if required).
  • Ideally you will be a member of a relevant institution (e.g., IExpE, IMechE, RINA, IET, SARS etc.) and hold Chartered or Incorporated status (or be working towards).

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • ‘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 [email protected] 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.

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