Product Safety Lead in Gloucester

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 Product Safety Lead covering Babcock sites across the UK.

The Role

As a Product Safety Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to establish and drive implementation of safety processes across our full suite of products and services that we support. Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for the management of the Product Safety Management System (PSMS) and providing support to project teams adherence to it as well as:

• Develop, implement, and manage the Product Safety Management System (PSMS) and associated safety artifacts, including safety case reports and hazard analyses.
• Conduct and oversee safety assessments such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Collaborate with Product Safety Leads to share insights, best practices, and drive continuous improvement in safety measures.
• Represent and facilitate Babcock’s Product Safety Review Board, monitoring performance and recommending enhancements to safety processes.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all product safety matters, ensuring compliance and effective communication across teams.

This position is home based with regular travel to internal and external sites across the UK. This role is full time, 37 hours per week.

Essential Experience of the Product Safety Lead

• Significant experience in risk management and the development and application of safety management policy and process.
• A good knowledge of general engineering principles.

Qualifications for the Product Safety Lead

• A degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering field.

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. 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

Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together. We are a disability confident committed employer.