Environment, Health & Safety Advisor

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employer in the UK is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Advisor based in Bristol with hybrid working arrangements. In this role, you'll develop and deliver safety training programs while providing support and advice to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. Essential requirements include a NEBOSH Certificate and strong communication skills. Babcock International promotes an inclusive work environment and provides numerous employee benefits, including generous holiday allowances and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience as an EHS Advisor or in a similar position.
• Confidence in delivering training to diverse audiences.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety, and environmental standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engaging training programs including various safety protocols.
• Provide practical EHS advice and support across the organization.
• Conduct audits to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Training delivery

Understanding of legislation

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Grad IOSH

Membership in IOSH

Job description

Job Title: Environmental Health and Safety Advisor
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66360

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Environmental Health and Safety Advisor at our Ashton Vale site.

The role
As an Environmental Health and Safety Advisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be instrumental in shaping and delivering our Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) culture across Mission Systems, helping ensure our people go home safe every day.

Day-to-day, you’ll

• Deliver engaging and effective training programmes including IOSH Managing and Working Safely,Manual Handling, Event Investigation, Spill Management, and Risk Assessment
• Undertake project work across business units, such as implementing new processes or researching specific business needs
• Provide practical EHS advice and support to managers and employees across a complex organisation.
• Develop and deliver innovative health and safety training media, including inductions, toolbox talks, and e-learning
• Conduct audits to ensure compliance with legislation and ISO14001 & ISO45001 standards

This role is full time or part time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Environmental Health and Safety Advisor

• Experience working in an EHS Advisor or similar role.
• Confident in delivering training sessions to varied audiences.
• Strong understanding of relevant health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build relationships.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and digital reporting tools.

Qualifications for the Environmental Health and Safety Advisor

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent (minimum).
• Grad IOSH working towards CMIOSH (advantageous).
• Member of IOSH or a related professional body.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC)security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles 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 atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.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 to 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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] 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: 27/08/2025

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