Senior Safety Engineer

Job Title:               Senior Safety Engineer
Location:               Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation:     Competitive Salary + Benefits
Type:                     Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                 SF60346
 
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 Safety Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
 
The role
As a Senior Safety Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock are significantly upgrading the Devonport site and as such you will have the opportunity to support the design and build of new, submarine maintenance facilities.
 
Day to day, you’ll be responsible for providing Babcock’s operations with specialist knowledge and support relating to nuclear and radiological safety. 
 

• Provide direction on safety projects in line with strategy
• Support the delivery of nuclear safety cases and modifications to these cases
• Develop and implement nuclear safety processes and standards
• Provide technical advice on nuclear safety assessment processes and policy

 
This role is full time, 35 hours per week provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

 
Essential experience of the Safety Assessment Manager

• Possess great interpersonal and leadership skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience or background of working in a highly regulated industry i.e. oil and gas, nuclear, rail aviation.
• Knowledge of nuclear engineering, and safety policy and assessment methodologies is extremely desirable to support this role.  

 
Qualifications for the Senior Safety Engineer

• Educated to Degree level in an Engineering or Scientific discipline and have relevant experience.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 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 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: 10/12/2024

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