Safety Engineer

Safety Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Safety Engineer – WOME
Location: Plymouth, Devonport – Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: SF60197

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 Safety Engineer specialising in Weapons, Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives (WOME) at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Safety Engineer specialising in WOME, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll produce outputs for Babcock products, which meet the safety and environmental requirements of applicable legislation and Ministry of Defence Policy. You will join a national team of over eight hundred engineers and designers within the Marine Sector of Babcock. We are a leading design consultancy providing naval architecture, marine system engineering, electrical engineering, design modelling and project support services to the marine and defence markets.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Work as part of a team to provide professional WOME safety and environmental engineering support to naval ship projects, including design, build, launch and trials.
• Provide WOME safety and environmental input to non-conformances and design changes to influence the safety of the design.
• Provide authorship of technical documentation such as WOME Safety & Environmental Case Reports.
• Attend and record hazard identification and review meetings, as well as developing and maintaining hazard logs.
• Support other members of the UKME SEG in the development of safety and environmental assessments or cases.

This role is a full-time position and will consist of a 36-hour working week. It will be based out of Devonport with flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Experience of the Safety Engineer:

• Engineering background in relevant discipline with WOME safety and environmental assessment/management experience.
• Experience in multidisciplinary engineering environments.
• Knowledge of complex engineering in ships/submarines or equivalent systems.
• Ability to compile high-quality technical reports.
• Understanding of Defence Standard 00-101 and SETHA process for maritime platforms.
• Awareness of International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code, Allied Naval Engineering Publication 77, and hazard assessment techniques (SWIFT, HazOpS, FTA, ETA, FME(C)A).

Qualifications for the Safety Engineer WOME:

• Ideally degree qualified in an engineering discipline but extensive experience in a relevant field will be considered.
• Preferably already hold the Defence Maritime Regulator’s (DMR) Ship Safety & Environmental Management Training (SEMT) or Ship Safety Management Office (SSMO) Certification (training will be arranged if required).
• Ideally you will be a member of a relevant institution (e.g., IExpE, IMechE, RINA, IET, SARS etc.) and hold Chartered or Incorporated status (or be working towards).

Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 is a benefit that allows the majority of 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 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.

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