Senior Safety Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Safety Engineer
Compensation: £51,941 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61683

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Safety Engineer, you'll support the operational capability of the nation's nuclear submarine fleet and the continuous nuclear deterrent by joining our Submarine Support Engineering group and lead on the delivery of safety engineering tasks.

Day-to-day, you'll be part of the delivery of Babcock International Group's Engineering Services technical outputs. Leading a small team and working on safety cases for the new and current operational facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support hazard identification activities including HAZOPs, checklists and walkdowns.
• Undertake safety assessments including the application of deterministic and probabilistic analysis techniques and the production of fault schedules and fault/event trees.
• Inform the design of nuclear and radiological facilities to ensure that risks are reduced to a level which is tolerable and as low as reasonably practicable.
• Author and check technical documentation.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential Experience:

• A background in nuclear/radiological safety.
• Good interpersonal skills, and be competent in verbal and written communication.
• The ability to operate and interface effectively with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level in an Engineering or Scientific discipline and/or have relevant knowledge and experience.
• Chartered Engineer status is desirable, but not strictly essential if you possess the relevant level of experience in Nuclear Safety.

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.

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 allows employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work.
• 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 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.