
Senior Maritime Safety Consultant
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support safety assurance activities across complex naval platforms, ensuring compliance with MOD and international safety standards.
- Develop and maintain safety cases for ships and submarines, including hazard logs, risk assessments, and ALARP justifications.
- Guide junior engineers and review safety documentation.
- Engage with stakeholders within DE&S/SDA, naval operators, and suppliers to ensure safety requirements are understood and met.
- Support design and engineering decisions by identifying safety implications and recommending risk mitigation strategies.
- Contribute to safety management systems, ensuring continual improvement and alignment with MOD and industry best practices.
- Deliver technical training packages on safety engineering principles, tools, and processes.
- Contribute to safety engineering activities to support Platform certification by the Naval Authority Technical Group.
- Conduct independent safety audits and assessments, providing expert advice and assurance to senior leadership.
- Provide technical safety input to bids and proposals, ensuring accurate, compliant, and competitive safety content is included in submissions.
- Maritime safety practitioner with broad knowledge of Surface Ships /Submarines.
- Knowledge of Defence Maritime Regulations.
- Experience in safety engineering within the defence, maritime, or high-hazard industries.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience with safety tools and techniques, such as FMEA, HAZOP, Fault Tree Analysis, and Bowtie analysis.
- A proactive, analytical mindset, with the ability to spearhead, mentor, and drive safety culture across teams.
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards it, with a recognised professional body.
- Experience of quality control activities for safety documentation.
- Experience in application of defence safety regulations (various), standards and policy, such as DSA02 DMR, IEC 61508, and JSP 815.