Senior Engineer

Help Shape Safety at the Heart of the UK’s Nuclear Engineering Future

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 Engineer at our Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol site.

The role

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll take on a role that is truly out of the ordinary. We’re open to candidates from mechanical or electrical engineering backgrounds who have a strong interest in Product Safety and are keen to apply their technical expertise within the nuclear sector. Day-to-day you’ll play a pivotal role in strengthening the product safety capability across our Nuclear Sector, supporting major naval and civil nuclear programmes. Influencing safety from concept through to delivery, you’ll ensure systems are safe by design, legally compliant, and supported by robust governance, while embedding a strong safety culture across complex, highly regulated environments.

• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of Product Safety management arrangements across nuclear programmes
• Provide expert guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment, safety justification and compliance with legislation and standards
• Develop and review Product Safety Management Plans and associated safety documentation
• Influence engineering teams and stakeholders to embed best practice and drive continuous improvement
• Contribute to assurance, audit and governance activities, reporting safety metrics and supporting improvement actions

This is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport or Bristol. Hybrid working patterns are available. You will work a minimum of two days a week on site.

Essential experience of the Senior Product Safety Engineer:

• Background in Mechanical or electrical engineering
• Understanding of UK civil and defence safety legislation and standards
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Knowledge of change management and project environments
• A proactive, resilient approach to continuous improvement

Qualifications for the Senior Product Safety Engineer:

• Degree or higher in a STEM discipline

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 100 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. 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: 12/05/2026