Safety engineer jobs in the UK offer various opportunities for professionals dedicated to workplace safety and risk management. These roles involve developing and implementing safety protocols, conducting risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Careers in this field span across diverse industries, including manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, and transportation.677 Safety Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom
Safety Engineer
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Imagine yourself joining a dedicated Safety and Environmental Team, a small but growing group that forms a crucial part of a larger equipment support function. Here, every day presents an opportunity to apply your passion for safety, providing independent and assured advice that shapes critical projects. You will be instrumental in producing and delivering essential safety artefacts, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and timeliness while aligning perfectly with client expectations.
Your experience in safety and risk management techniques, processes and concepts will be the cornerstone of your contributions, enabling our client's success in meeting their stringent safety requirements. You will navigate the intricacies of UK Ministry of Defence safety regulation, policy and standards, including Defence Safety Authority Regulations, Defence Equipment and Support Acquisition Safety and Environmental Management System, Project Orientated Safety Management System and Def Stan 00-056. Practical experience in managing hazard logs, facilitating HAZID and hazard review meetings, and authoring comprehensive safety assessment or safety case reports, complete with ALARP justifications, will be invaluable. Knowledge of statutory safety legislation and compliance management is highly desirable.
This role calls for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual, ideally bringing a background in UK defence engineering or system safety. Alternatively, professional systems safety or risk management experience gained within other sectors is equally valued. Your analytical thinking skills and collaborative spirit will be key to thriving within this customer-focused environment. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential, as you will be presenting professionally to diverse stakeholders. We are seeking a self-motivated professional, preferably with a recognised technical qualification in Engineering.
This is a permanent role based in Cheltenham, offering a hybrid working pattern. While you will enjoy the flexibility of hybrid work, there may be requirements to visit or work on client sites as needed.
These vacancies require SC clearance. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain relevant clearance.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.
Safety Engineer
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Imagine yourself joining a dedicated Safety and Environmental Team, a small but growing group that forms a crucial part of a larger equipment support function. Here, every day presents an opportunity to apply your passion for safety, providing independent and assured advice that shapes critical projects. You will be instrumental in producing and delivering essential safety artefacts, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and timeliness while aligning perfectly with client expectations.
Your experience in safety and risk management techniques, processes and concepts will be the cornerstone of your contributions, enabling our client's success in meeting their stringent safety requirements. You will navigate the intricacies of UK Ministry of Defence safety regulation, policy and standards, including Defence Safety Authority Regulations, Defence Equipment and Support Acquisition Safety and Environmental Management System, Project Orientated Safety Management System and Def Stan 00-056. Practical experience in managing hazard logs, facilitating HAZID and hazard review meetings, and authoring comprehensive safety assessment or safety case reports, complete with ALARP justifications, will be invaluable. Knowledge of statutory safety legislation and compliance management is highly desirable.
This role calls for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual, ideally bringing a background in UK defence engineering or system safety. Alternatively, professional systems safety or risk management experience gained within other sectors is equally valued. Your analytical thinking skills and collaborative spirit will be key to thriving within this customer-focused environment. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential, as you will be presenting professionally to diverse stakeholders. We are seeking a self-motivated professional, preferably with a recognised technical qualification in Engineering.
This is a permanent role based in Cheltenham, offering a hybrid working pattern. While you will enjoy the flexibility of hybrid work, there may be requirements to visit or work on client sites as needed.
These vacancies require SC clearance. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain relevant clearance.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.
Safety Engineer
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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: UK-Security Check (SC)
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
**Your Opportunity to Define Possible** **.** **Our Opportunity t** **o Deliver the Nation's Security** **. Together.**
As a Functional Safety Engineer, you'll have the chance to lead safety assurance activities on the design, development, and maintenance of cutting-edge infrastructure for naval vessel Platform Management Systems - including both surface ships and submarines. You will play a critical role leading safety activities regarding the development of the product and the provision of support to mission-critical naval operations. Reporting to the Product Safety Manager and as a linchpin in the Safety Engineering team.
Safety engineering activities include Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
Our UK Defence business is a Sovereign software and systems centre of excellence. As well as developing and supporting UK wide and internationally deployed multi-domain command and control systems, our work is critical to the modern backbone of the Royal Navy. We pioneer - with fierce curiosity, dedication, and innovation, we seek to solve the world's most challenging problems.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Report to the Product Safety Manager.
+ Derive safety activities and work schedules required by the programme to deliver agreed project milestones and satisfy safety requirements.
+ Leading safety activities to ensure that the customer's safety targets, and derived safety targets can be met by the system design, considering relevant aspects of Hardware, Software and Firmware.
+ Leading safety audits at internal and external design reviews and safety committee meetings.
+ Ensuring technical documentation is produced to a high standard in accordance with company/customer procedures.
+ Leading analysis that positively impacts the design decisions and solutions propose by the engineering teams.
+ Presenting complex and well-reasoned safety arguments to internal and external stakeholders in order to influence their consideration of safety decisions.
+ Working collaboratively within multi-disciplined teams to maximise NGs reputation by generating high quality and well-reasoned outputs
+ Awareness of latest standards and best practices to drive improvement
+ Provide input to the Monthly Staff Meeting, Team Briefings and SOFT report.
+ Supervision and development of other employees as required. May be requested to act as a mentor to more junior employees.
+ Travelling to customer and sub-contractor sites in the UK, occasionally overseas, as required
**Benefits:**
We can offer you a range of flexible and hybrid working options to suit you, including optional compressed working schedule with every other Friday off. Our benefits including private health care, career development opportunities and performance bonuses. For a comprehensive list of benefits, speak to our recruitment team.
**We are looking for:**
+ Relevant work experience in a safety-related engineering environment
+ Understanding and awareness of international and defence standards such as IEC 61508 and Def Stan 00-056
+ Experience of safety assurance of COTS PE based systems and/or high integrity software
+ Ability to understand hardware and software failure modes, causes and effects
+ Experience in safety/reliability analysis techniques: hazard identification and analysis, FMECA, FTA, Functional Failure Analysis
+ Experience of the tools and techniques used in developing ALARP justifications
+ Master's degree, Degree, HND or HNC in Engineering or Safety Management related discipline
**Why join us?**
+ **End-to-End Involvement** : Be part of a team responsible for the development of control systems products, playing a critical role in ensuring the safety, performance, and compliance of these cutting-edge systems.
+ **Innovative Projects** : Work on the design and delivery of next-generation infrastructure for naval platforms, contributing to national defence and global security efforts.
+ **Diverse Technology Stack** : application of safety techniques and arguments on complex IT/OT architecture.
+ **Professional Growth:** Take advantage of opportunities to grow your skills through training, certification, and experience in the defence sector.
+ **Impactful Work** : Work in a regulated environment with tangible real-world outcomes, ensuring mission-critical systems are secure, compliant, and ready for deployment on some of the world's most advanced naval platforms.
**Role Clearance Type:**
**You must be able to gain and maintain the relevant UK Government clearance in the line with the job role (SC)**
**How to Apply:**
**Interested in our opportunity?**
**Yes** - then simply submit your application online. Your application will be reviewed by one of our expert recruiters who'll then respond advising you of the outcome and next steps for successful candidates.
**Possibly, I'd like to find out more** - email to connect with one of our Sourcing Specialists who will be happy to support you with any enquires.
Background checks and potentially security clearance form part of the recruitment process, our team will inform you of the procedures when required.
**Northrop Grumman UK:**
Work with a global brand that makes a real contribution to our nation's security and future. At Northrop Grumman UK, the brightest minds come together to push the boundaries and Define Possible. As leaders in the digital transformation of Aerospace, Defence and Intelligence we are providing ground-breaking outcomes for our customers.
**Find out more** : Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.
Principal Safety Engineer
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Job Title: Principal Engineer – Safety
Location: Frimley, Weymouth, Bristol, Portsmouth, or Plymouth dependent on role and your personal circumstances. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing advice on product safety matters to project and engineering managers delivering the programmes and ensuring the safety considerations are correctly considered and implemented
- Engaging with third parties, to review and gather supporting Design Safety Justification (DSJ) report evidence
- Developing safety arguments, both physical and functional, using appropriate safety analyses methods, producing, and updating DSJ’s and safety management documentation using appropriate regulations and standards
- Line Managing other safety practitioners in your team
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in relevant STEM subject (Engineering/ Physics/ Maths/ Science)
- Broad knowledge of industry safety standards (such as Def Stan 00-055 and 00-056, IEC 61508 or similar)
- Demonstrable experience in safety engineering activities in the defence, maritime or a relevant highly regulated domain
Desirable:
- Good communication skills and ability to interact and manage stakeholders
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Safety & Environmental team:
You will have the opportunity to work within a team of engineers and technical specialists to help us design, develop, integrate, manage, and support complex systems and combat sub-systems for in service and future submarines. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 14th August 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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Principal Safety Engineer
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Job Title: Principal Engineer – Safety
Location: Frimley, Weymouth, Bristol, Portsmouth, or Plymouth dependent on role and your personal circumstances. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing advice on product safety matters to project and engineering managers delivering the programmes and ensuring the safety considerations are correctly considered and implemented
- Engaging with third parties, to review and gather supporting Design Safety Justification (DSJ) report evidence
- Developing safety arguments, both physical and functional, using appropriate safety analyses methods, producing, and updating DSJ’s and safety management documentation using appropriate regulations and standards
- Line Managing other safety practitioners in your team
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in relevant STEM subject (Engineering/ Physics/ Maths/ Science)
- Broad knowledge of industry safety standards (such as Def Stan 00-055 and 00-056, IEC 61508 or similar)
- Demonstrable experience in safety engineering activities in the defence, maritime or a relevant highly regulated domain
Desirable:
- Good communication skills and ability to interact and manage stakeholders
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Safety & Environmental team:
You will have the opportunity to work within a team of engineers and technical specialists to help us design, develop, integrate, manage, and support complex systems and combat sub-systems for in service and future submarines. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 14th August 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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Senior Safety Engineer
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Our client, a leading provider of engineering solutions in the energy sector, is currently seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to join their team in Basingstoke.
Key Responsibilities:
- Producing project safety and environmental deliverables, including HSE Plans, HSE Philosophy, and waste management plans
- Attending safety workshops such as HAZID, ENVID, HAZOP, and SIL
- Managing and signing off safety actions
- Liaising with clients and external stakeholders
- Acting as Project Discipline Lead for projects, ensuring timely issuance of deliverables
- Providing technical support on HSE matters to other disciplines
- Conducting technical reviews of contractor documentation
Job Requirements:
- Experience working on energy projects, including oil and gas design projects
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team to produce high-quality deliverables on schedule
- Knowledge of UK regulations and standards
- Experience working to IFC and World Bank standards
- Significant experience in safety and environmental engineering
- Strong HSE knowledge and ability to prepare high-quality HSE documentation
- Ability to critically review the work of others
- Experience with site surveys and stakeholder engagement
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Experience with multinational FEED projects
- Highly collaborative team player, willing to develop and share skills
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience
Location:
Basingstoke, UK
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work on a variety of groundbreaking projects
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Supportive and collaborative work environment
- SmartWorking policy allowing up to 60% remote working
- Ample free parking and close proximity to the mainline railway station
If you are an experienced safety engineer looking for an exciting opportunity in the energy sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team in Basingstoke.
Principal Safety Engineer
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Principal Safety Engineer - Product Safety Engineering
Salary: up to 70k + overtime
Location: Coventry - hybrid
Overview - Safety Engineer
The role will provide the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of safety management and safety case delivery. This includes safety requirements capture and management, hazard identification and analysis.
All industries considered and have cross transferable into Defence: Aerospace, Automotive, R&D / Test, Oil & Gas, Rail, Maritime, Shipbuilding and so on.
What you'll be doing - Safety Engineer
- Working as part of an Integrated Development Team, established to develop and deliver systems /capability
- Supporting Hazard Identification and Analysis studies
- Assisting with or generating safety reports
- Liaising with other Integrated Development Teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team
Skills and experiences - Safety Engineer
- An understanding of 'Safety and Systems Engineering'
- The ability to be agile in working practices and customer expectations
- Self-motivated, with good verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge in ALARP, HAZID or HAZOP
- Knowledge of safety analysis techniques such as Fault / Event Tree Analysis or FMEA
All successful Safety Engineers will be contacted within 2 days of application
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Senior Safety Engineer
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Job Advert: Senior Safety Engineer
Location: Basingstoke, UK
Contract Type: Permanent
Are you ready to take your career to new heights? Our client is on the lookout for a passionate and experienced Senior Safety Engineer to join their dynamic Safety and Environment team! If you thrive in a collaborative environment and have a strong background in safety engineering, we want to hear from you!
About the Role:
As a Senior Safety Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of various projects by providing expert advice on Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) regulatory compliance. You will have the opportunity to lead projects as the Project Discipline Leader (PDL) and contribute to the development of essential safety and environmental deliverables.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce project safety and environmental deliverables, including HSE Plans, HSE Philosophy, and waste management plans.
- Actively participate in safety workshops such as HAZID/ENVID, HAZOP, and SIL.
- Manage safety actions and ensure timely sign-offs.
- Liaise with clients and external stakeholders to foster strong working relationships.
- Serve as Project Discipline Lead, ensuring all deliverables align with project timelines.
- Provide technical support on HSE matters to various disciplines.
- Conduct thorough technical reviews of contractor documentation.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven experience in energy projects, particularly in oil and gas design.
- Strong ability to work both independently and collaboratively, delivering high-quality results on time.
- Comprehensive knowledge of UK regulations and experience with IFC and World Bank standards.
- Demonstrated expertise in safety/environmental engineering and robust HSE knowledge.
- Exceptional skills in preparing high-quality HSE engineering documentation.
- Ability to critically review the work of others and conduct site surveys.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Prior experience in multinational FEED projects is a plus!
- A team player who is eager to learn and share knowledge with others.
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
Why Join Us?
- Work in a vibrant and supportive environment located just a 9-minute walk from Basingstoke train station!
- Be part of a passionate team dedicated to making a positive impact through safety and environmental excellence.
- Enjoy opportunities for professional development and growth in your career.
If you're excited about bringing your expertise in safety engineering to a forward-thinking organisation, we want to hear from you! Apply today to embark on a fulfilling journey with our client and help shape a safer, more sustainable future.
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Functional Safety Engineer
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The successful candidate will assist in projects in the following industries. Petrochemical, Oil and Gas, Medical Device, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical and Nuclear.
**Please note that we can also offer this vacancy on a contract basis.**
Booth Welsh Mission Statement
To engineer value by engagement, collaboration and innovation; optimising processes by deploying technology and digitalisation to create unique differentiators for project execution and life cycle support.
As part of our engineering team, we are looking for a talented individual with a wide range of professional skills. The role requires the individual to be working on and controlling multiple concurrent projects with a keen eye to ensuring deadlines are achieved. There will be a strong client interface and ideally, a wide degree of instrumentation technical knowledge as well as considerable experience in an industrial environment.
Candidates preferred will have pharmaceutical / fine chemical experience and will possess the necessary competencies and behaviours to be able to work with minimum supervision.
Responsibilities / Duties:
- Lead the Functional Safety Aspects of assigned projects
- Prepare Functional Safety Management Plans
- Participate in LOPA studies as required
- Prepare and review Safety Requirements Specifications
- Lead the creation of Functional Safety Design Documentation
- Lead Functional Safety Assessments
- Assist with Instrument Engineering activities as required on projects.
Requirements:
- Chartered or working toward Chartered status
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline
- Relevant Engineering experience and high technical capability for core Instrument Engineering discipline.
- At least 5 years' experience in Functional Safety activities
- TUV FS Engineer certificate (or equivalent preferred)
Senior Safety Engineer
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Senior Safety Engineer Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh
About the Role
As a Senior Safety Engineer to join our world-class Technical/Process Safety team. Ideally based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh office, you will play a key role in supporting and leading safety projects across high-hazard industries such as Oil & Gas, Low Carbon, and Renewables. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the energy transition while mentoring junior engineers and developing your own technical expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver technically excellent safety projects.
- Conduct safety assessments including consequence analysis, QRA, Formal Safety Assessments, and Safety Case/COMAH compliance.
- Author high-quality technical reports.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers.
- Prepare proposals and cost estimates for new work scopes.
- Ensure project delivery aligns with scope, budget, and schedule.
- Engage directly with clients and build strong relationships.
- Perform additional tasks as required, aligned with your skills and development goals.
- Degree in a relevant engineering or related discipline.
- Chartered status with a recognized institution.
- Proven experience in Process/Technical Safety, ideally within the Energy sector.
- Strong background in risk and safety management.
- Demonstrated ability to lead projects and meet delivery/cost targets.
- Proficiency in QRA and consequence analysis (preferably using PHAST).
- Familiarity with COMAH and Safety Case Regulations.
- Skilled in technical report writing and reviewing.
- Experience contributing to successful bids and proposals.
- Passion for technically challenging engineering projects.
- Proactive, driven, and committed to continuous improvement.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Excellent time management and ability to meet deadlines.
- Client-facing experience with commercial awareness.
- Highly organized and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
The NRL Group connect global companies with the right people to bring engineering projects to life. Supporting contracting companies with energy transition plans and working with our clients to create a cleaner, greener future.
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