Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer in Dunfermline

Location: Rosyth, Fife - Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive, plus Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Future of Safer Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering large-scale projects for global clients. This position will focus on advancing the safe design and operation of marine Cargo Handling Systems and Fuel Gas Systems used in the transportation and storage of liquefied gases such as LNG, LPG, LCO2, and emerging alternative fuels. In addition to supporting project delivery, the role will be instrumental in early-stage concept development, providing Product & Process Safety support for new technologies, novel products and evolving market areas.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Leading internal and external safety workshops including HAZID, HAZOP, SIL determination and verification.
• Collaborating with New Product Development and Project teams to prioritise safety activities across global programmes.
• Managing documentation and ensuring compliance with quality management systems.
• Coordinating training and development for the safety engineering team.
• Overseeing direct reports and ensuring delivery of safety outputs to project timelines.

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

Essential experience of the Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer:

• Good working knowledge of Product and Process Safety systems; HAZID, HAZOP, SIL and LOPA.
• Familiarity with IEC – Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector.
• Familiarity with software packages such as UNISIM and PHAST is desirable.
• Strong technical and analytical skill – specifically in process safety.

Qualifications for the Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer:

• Degree qualified in Process, Chemical or related Engineering discipline.
• Extensive experience in Process Safety Engineering.
• We will consider Engineers desiring to return to work after a career break with appropriate previous experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS 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

• 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.
• ‘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.