DE&S Marine Safety Engineer Bristol, England
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Our people push for best-in-class every day – because it helps keep our nation safe. So whatever your background, whatever your skill set, if you’re driven to set new standards, find your place with us. Ready to see where your ambition will lead you?
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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.
About the role
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.
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Selection process details
1. Pre-sift - We will check that you meet any essential or eligibility criteria that are listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. On your CV, please clearly show how you meet the essential criteria.
2. Sift - Your CV will be assessed against the following categories, using a simple numerical scoring system: Key Achievements; Relevant Experience; Applied Knowledge and Skills
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3. Interview - If you're invited to interview, you'll be assessed against the Sift categories listed above, as well as the Technical Competences and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. More details about our Behaviours can be found attached at the bottom of the page.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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