Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer

Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer

Location: Rosyth, Fife - Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive, plus Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Future of Safer Engineering

The role

As a Senior Product and Process Safety Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering large-scale projects for global clients. This position will focus on advancing the safe design and operation of marine Cargo Handling Systems and Fuel Gas Systems used in the transportation and storage of liquefied gases such as LNG, LPG, LCO2, and emerging alternative fuels. In addition to supporting project delivery, the role will be instrumental in early-stage concept development, providing Product & Process Safety support for new technologies, novel products and evolving market areas.

Day to day responsibilities

• Leading internal and external safety workshops including HAZID, HAZOP, SIL determination and verification.
• Collaborating with New Product Development and Project teams to prioritise safety activities across global programmes.
• Managing documentation and ensuring compliance with quality management systems.
• Coordinating training and development for the safety engineering team.
• Overseeing direct reports and ensuring delivery of safety outputs to project timelines.

Hybrid working arrangements: 2 days onsite, 3 days remote.

Essential experience

• Good working knowledge of Product and Process Safety systems; HAZID, HAZOP, SIL and LOPA.
• Familiarity with IEC 61511 - Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector.
• Familiarity with software packages such as UNISIM and PHAST is desirable.
• Strong technical and analytical skill - specifically in process safety.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Process, Chemical or related Engineering discipline.
• Extensive experience in Process Safety Engineering.
• We will consider Engineers desiring to return to work after a career break with appropriate previous experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility 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

• 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 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: 04/02/2026