Principal Safety Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Principal Safety Engineer in Plymouth, playing a crucial role in the safe delivery of major infrastructure projects for the Royal Navy. You'll ensure complex dock, berth, and building facilities meet stringent regulatory and operational requirements.
// Key Responsibilities
- Influence design intent and validate safety claims for critical infrastructure.
- Review safety engineering designs against relevant standards.
- Provide subject matter expertise to design and construction teams.
- Guide and review safety design packages, ensuring integration.
- Ensure safety case claims are substantiated by compliant documentation.
- Requires sole UK National status for Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Principal Safety Engineer
At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Principal Safety Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, you will be instrumental in achieving this mission. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements, with a minimum of 2 days required onsite.
You will play a vital role in the safe delivery of major infrastructure projects supporting the Royal Navy’s ship and submarine sustainment programmes. Working within the Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) directorate, your expertise will be crucial in supporting the design and upgrade of complex dock, berth, and building facilities. Your responsibilities will include ensuring these critical systems meet all regulatory and operational requirements for acceptance into service.
Day-to-day, you will leverage your safety engineering expertise to:
- Influence design intent and validate safety claims.
- Ensure engineered solutions meet stringent technical and functional safety requirements.
- Review safety engineering designs for compliance against relevant engineering and HSE standards.
- Provide subject matter expertise to support technical problem-solving across design and construction teams.
- Guide and review safety design packages, ensuring integration with other engineering disciplines.
- Ensure safety case claims can be substantiated through compliant, complete, and accurate design documentation.
- Offer onsite advice for design changes or defect rectification, ensuring quality assurance and adherence to engineering principles.
Essential Experience:
- A strong background in safety engineering within complex projects and high-hazard industries (minimum Senior Safety Engineer level).
- Experience reviewing or managing safety cases and assessing design intent.
- Experience within dockyard, defence, or nuclear industries (oil and gas, rail, aerospace also considered).
- Ability to evaluate technical issues and guide engineering teams toward compliant solutions.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience as a Design Authority or supporting DA processes.
- Additional qualifications or experience in nuclear or safety-critical systems.
Qualifications:
- Degree in an Engineering or STEM discipline.
Security Clearance:
To be considered for this role, you must be a sole UK National and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.
Compensation: £61,474 - £68,754 depending on experience, plus benefits.
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Role ID: SF70724