Principal Safety Engineer

Principal Safety Engineer

Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Principal Safety Engineer
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63595

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 Principal Safety Engineer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol and across other UK sites.

The Role
As a Principal Safety Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of projects allowing you to further develop your expertise and knowledge for progression.

Day-to-day, as a Principal Safety Engineer, you’ll support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

• Demonstrate strong problem solving and analytical skills, applying knowledge and experience.
• Be familiar with safety management systems and risk analysis tools.
• Implement Engineering safety management plans.
• Convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop and create Safety Cases, Safety Requirements, Hazard Identification and Analysis, including application of the ALARP principle and legislative awareness.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with working days onsite and working days from home. The role also requires the candidate to travel across other UK sites when the project demands.

Essential experience of the Principal Safety Engineer

• Have been involved in the systems safety assessment and assurance of complex systems.
• Applied various safety tools and techniques including assessment.
• Experience of managing safety programs across the product lifecycle working in a highly regulated environment.
• Demonstration of producing and reviewing product safety management plans.

Qualifications for the Principal Safety Engineer

• Hold a degree in a STEM subject or have relevant engineering experience. Other qualifications, combined with experience, may also be considered.
• Hold membership of a registered professional body.

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.

What We Offer

• 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 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: 17/04/2025