HSE Operational Assurance Manager

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health benefits

Job summary

Babcock is recruiting an HSE Operational Assurance Manager to lead the development, implementation and continual improvement of Environmental, Health and Safety management systems, audit programmes and compliance frameworks. You will work with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with legal requirements and internationally recognised standards.

The role requires experience in HSE assurance, governance, auditing or management systems, with travel across UK sites.

Qualifications

• Experience providing assurance findings and performance reports to senior leadership teams.
• Proven ability to lead HSE assurance programmes across a multi-site organisation.
• Experience planning, delivering and closing corrective actions from audits.
• Experience managing EHS management systems and ISO certifications.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

• Drive audit, assurance and compliance programmes to maintain robust standards.
• Analyse HSE performance data and report to senior stakeholders.
• Support ISO certification activities and continual improvement initiatives.
• Influence stakeholders to strengthen risk management and compliance.
• Lead development and governance of ISO-certified HSE management systems.
• Oversee HSE assurance across Babcock's UK operations.

Skills

HSE assurance

Auditing

Management systems

ISO 14001/45001

Stakeholder influence

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Lead Auditor ISO 14001/45001

Job description

Job Title: HSE Operational Assurance Manager

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76085

Shape the future of health, safety and environmental excellence across a global organisation

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HSE Operational Assurance Manager at any of our main UK locations. This role supports a UK-wide operation and will involve travel across Babcock sites.

As a leading member of the Environmental, Health and Safety team within Mission Technologies, you will lead the organisation's HSE assurance framework across a complex UK-wide operation. This role is focused on assurance, audit, governance and management systems, providing independent oversight of HSE performance, compliance and risk management activities. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will evaluate the effectiveness of controls, identify improvement opportunities and help ensure compliance with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, legal obligations and organisational standards.

The role

As an HSE Operational Assurance Manager, you'll lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Environmental, Health and Safety management systems, audit programmes and compliance frameworks. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you'll help ensure alignment with business objectives, legal requirements and internationally recognised standards.

This role is best suited to candidates with a background in HSE assurance, governance, auditing or management systems rather than operational site-based health and safety management.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Drive audit, assurance and compliance programmes to maintain robust operational standards.
• Analyse health, safety and environmental performance data and producing reports for senior stakeholders.
• Support ISO certification activities, continual improvement initiatives and business transformation programmes.
• Influence stakeholders at all levels to strengthen risk management, compliance and operational performance.
• Lead the development, implementation, governance and continuous improvement of ISO-certified Environmental, Health and Safety management systems.
• Lead HSE assurance programmes across the business, providing independent oversight of compliance, risk management and management system effectiveness.
• Support HSE assurance and compliance activities across Babcock's Land Sector operations.

This is a full-time, 37-hour per week and is a home-based/hybrid role with regular travel to Babcock sites across the UK.

Essential experience of the HSE Operational Assurance Manager

• Experience providing assurance findings, performance reports and recommendations to senior leadership teams.
• Significant experience leading HSE assurance programmes within a complex, multi-site organisation.
• Experience leading audit programmes, including planning, delivery and follow-up of corrective actions.
• Significant experience managing EHS management systems.
• Experience maintaining ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications.

Qualifications for the HSE Operational Assurance Manager

• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent qualification).
• Lead Auditor qualification in ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Chartered IOSH (CMIOSH).
• IEMA Practitioner or Chartered Environmentalist.
• Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, APM or equivalent).

Security Clearance

This role requires the successful candidate to be eligible for and maintain SC clearance.

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: 30/10/2026

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