Job Title: Product Safety Lead
Location: Location flexible with hybrid working and 1-2 days travel to either of our Bristol or Tewkesbury sites
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Management Lead – Product Safety.
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:
1. Serving as the primary point of contact for product safety matters
2. Developing, implementing and managing the PSMS
3. Collaborating with other Product Safety Leads to share insights and best practices
4. Monitoring, reviewing, and recommending improvements to Babcock’s safety measures
5. Representing Babcock at the sector Product Safety review board
6. Facilitating the Product Safety review board
This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role. This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Product Safety Lead
7. A good knowledge and experience of mechanical or electrical engineering principles
8. Significant experience in risk management and the development and application of safety management policy and process
Qualifications for the Management Lead – Product Safety
9. A degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering field
Security Clearance
10. 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. Further details are available at
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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
18. ‘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