Marine Safety Engineer

Would you like to work in an environment where you can harness your passion for safety engineering and defence, whilst developing your skills and experience? If so, we can support you on your journey to hone your safety skills, whilst providing you access to world-class training and a supportive culture.

As one of our Marine Safety Engineers, you will join a highly skilled and motivated team whose work covers the whole portfolio of Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary warships. You’ll provide safety support to specific project teams throughout the equipment and platform acquisition lifecycle, which may span requirement setting in the concept phase, input to ‘safe by design’ decisions, through to in-service support of our current platforms and their eventual disposal. You will have the chance to join a community of interest with like-minded individuals, whilst supporting vessels such as the Type 45 Destroyers and Type 26 Frigates and the Royal Navy’s exciting future ship concepts.

Please note, there may be domestic travel to UK dockyards and international travel required for these positions.

Hear from Steve Lapsley, one of our Ships Engineers – “Having started my career as a Naval Architect, I have chosen to develop myself as a safety Engineer. This is a critical role for DE&S and for me personally- it has allowed me to broaden my marine engineering understanding and provides me with opportunities for career progression as a marine engineer.

Responsibilities for Marine Safety Engineer

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Interpreting and applying safety policy for the design and support of platforms and equipment
• Developing and managing safety cases for platforms, systems or equipment
• Generating safety case reports and undertaking risk assessments
• Identifying opportunities for safety improvements and delivering against these
• Setting up, running and maintaining safety systems at project level, as well as overseeing and mitigating risks
• Implementing safety management systems and monitoring their effectiveness through governance and assurance
• Managing a team to deliver safety outputs
• Providing advice and support to colleagues, ensuring that appropriate safety requirements are correctly applied and delivered in contracts, as well as managing contractors who perform safety management activities on behalf of DE&S

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you’ll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• You will hold a HNC (i.e., Level 4 or higher) qualification in a relevant engineering or science discipline, or will demonstrate equivalent working experience
• Have demonstrable experience using a range of safety tools and techniques, to provide advice and guidance on complex projects, e.g. Hazard Log Management; Hazard Identification; Risk Assessment and ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) justifications
• Experience of engaging with stakeholders to support safety-related decision making.

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Adoption of safety risk management (Practitioner)
• Complies with Sys Safety requirements (Practitioner)
• Communicating and influencing
• Changing and improving

Benefits

We’re pleased to offer a generous benefits package to support everything from your work-life balance to your bank balance, including:

• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• A market-leading employer pension contribution of around 27 percent, an annual performance-based bonus, and recognition awards
• Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible, to support your work-life balance (though some attendance to the stated site is required)
• Access to specialist training and funded professional qualifications, with plenty of opportunities and support for progression
• A huge range of discounts including retail, sports, leisure, restaurants, gifts, days out, holidays, cinema, motoring, insurance, health care, gym memberships, and more
• Up to six days of paid leave a year for volunteering
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave schemes, offering 100% pay for 26 weeks (after a qualifying period)
• We champion a diverse and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and give their best. We believe that by harnessing the power of different ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we can achieve our ambitions, together. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
• Discover more about Little Book of Big Benefits and pension schemes.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £43,400.00-£47,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Yearly bonus

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 878