HSE Manager

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Job summary

Babcock in Bristol, near Bath, Somerset, is seeking a dedicated HSE Manager to lead a team of Health, Safety and Environmental Advisors. You will embed a proactive safety culture across our Mission Technologies business, influence strategic decisions and drive continuous improvement in compliance and environmental performance.

You will provide expert guidance to stakeholders, undertake audits and investigations, manage risk reduction activities, and maintain security clearances.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior Health, Safety & Environmental role.
• Experience leading, developing and managing teams of HSE/EHS professionals.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation, compliance requirements and best practice.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and drive continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Health, Safety and Environmental Advisors.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and employees on health, safety and environmental matters.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance compliance, safety performance and environmental standards.
• Conduct and oversee audits, inspections, incident investigations and risk reduction activities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, regulators and industry bodies to promote best practice.

Skills

HSE leadership

Team management

Audits & investigations

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Education

NEEBOSH level 5 or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: HSE Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76417

Lead the way in creating a safer, more sustainable future

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager at Bristol, near Bath, Somerset.

The role

As a HSE Manager, you'll play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and embedding a proactive safety culture across our Mission Technologies business. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, lead a team of specialist advisors, and drive continuous improvement across health, safety and environmental performance.

You’ll provide expert guidance to stakeholders across the organisation, helping ensure our people can perform critical work safely and responsibly while supporting projects that contribute to national security and defence capability. Alongside making a tangible impact on the business, you’ll benefit from excellent career development opportunities within a global engineering and technology organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead and developing a team of Health, Safety and Environmental Advisors.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and employees on health, safety and environmental matters.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance compliance, safety performance and environmental standards.
• Conduct and overseeing audits, inspections, incident investigations and risk reduction activities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, regulators and industry bodies to promote best practice.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home. There will be some travel to other Babcock sites when required.

Essential experience of the HSE Manager

• Proven experience in a senior Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE/EHS)
• Experience leading, developing and managing teams of HSE/EHS professionals.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation, compliance requirements and best practice.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and drive continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.

Qualifications for the HSE Manager

• NEEBOSH level 5 or equivalent

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole British National as potential for Developed Vetting (DV) in the future.

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 at United 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 02/11/2026

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