Job Title: Compliance Engineer
Location: Faslane Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39, - £44, + 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 Compliance Engineer at our Faslane site.
The role
As a Compliance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock is establishing a new “Safe to Operate” team at HMNB Clyde. We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Compliance Engineer to join this team.
“Safe to Operate” means having safe and compliant infrastructure, assets and equipment and in conjunction with appropriate processes, and suitably qualified and experienced personnel, can deliver our operations and outputs and meet the requirements of the customer.
Day to day, you’ll be working with other specialists in “Safe to Operate” team receive and review the information regarding the buildings in the Asset Management Plan (AMP).
1. Develop and then undertake specific inspections of the buildings systems to determine adequacy of state against relevant good practice.
2. Flag any legislative or health and safety shortfalls immediately with Babcock.
3. Complete gap analysis report on findings.
4. Provide a technical interface with internal and external stakeholders at a detailed level.
5. Review and assess adequacy of maintenance, defect, performance/operability etc and together with the actual condition, assess status and whether the system/building is safe to operate
6. Ensure procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and will be based at our Faslane site with hybrid working from home arrangements available.
Essential experience of the Compliance Engineer
7. Have a good understanding of rules and regulations
8. Previous experience as a Compliance Engineer in an industrial setting
9. Have broad and deep knowledge of the management of high risk activities and asset best practice in a highly regulated, high-hazard industrial workplace
10. IOSH Risk management/IOSH Managing Safely qualified and have operational experience
Qualifications for the Compliance Engineer:
11. HNC or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Building Services, Fire Management)
The successful candidate must be able to achieve 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 (
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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
19. ‘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
20. Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
21. A dynamic working environment.