Lead Occupational Hygienist

Babcock International; West Devon; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock at Devonport Royal Dockyard is seeking a Lead Occupational Hygienist to act as the site SME for occupational hygiene, shaping strategy and driving health risk controls across a complex industrial environment.

You will lead a specialist team, advise senior leaders, develop health risk management programmes, and ensure compliance with health legislation and industry standards. A SC clearance is required; travel to other sites may be limited.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working in occupational hygiene within a complex industrial environment.
• Experience identifying, assessing and controlling occupational health risks, including chemical, physical and biological hazards.
• Experience interpreting occupational exposure monitoring data and providing practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Experience ensuring compliance with occupational health legislation, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Experience developing occupational hygiene strategies, health risk assessments, monitoring programmes and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing the Occupational Hygiene team, providing technical direction and professional leadership.
• Acting as the site's occupational hygiene subject matter expert, advising senior leaders on health risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Reviewing and approving occupational hygiene assessments, reports and recommendations to ensure technical quality and consistency.
• Developing and overseeing control strategies for workplace exposure risks and assuring their effectiveness.
• Ensuring compliance with occupational hygiene legislation, standards and company requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory compliance

Health risk assessment

Education

Degree in Occupational Hygiene / related

BOHS Certificate of Operational Competence

BOHS membership or equivalent

Job description

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Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Lead Occupational Hygienist

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76494

Lead the strategy that protects the health and wellbeing of a complex industrial workforce

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Lead Occupational Hygienist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As Lead Occupational Hygienist, you’ll be the site's subject matter expert for occupational hygiene, driving the identification, assessment and control of workplace health risks across one of the UK's most complex industrial environments. This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll shape occupational hygiene strategy, influence senior stakeholders and lead a specialist team that helps keep our people safe and healthy every day.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide expert advice, develop robust health risk management programmes and ensure compliance with occupational health legislation and industry standards. In return, you'll gain exposure to a broad range of operations while developing your leadership skills within a purpose-driven organisation supporting critical national infrastructure.

• Leading and developing the Occupational Hygiene team, providing technical direction and professional leadership.
• Acting as the site's occupational hygiene subject matter expert, advising senior leaders on health risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Reviewing and approving occupational hygiene assessments, reports and recommendations to ensure technical quality and consistency.
• Developing and overseeing control strategies for workplace exposure risks and assuring their effectiveness.
• Ensuring compliance with occupational hygiene legislation, standards and company requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week, based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Limited travel to other sites may be required where there is a business need.

Essential experience of the Lead Occupational Hygienist

• Significant experience working in occupational hygiene within a complex industrial environment.
• Experience identifying, assessing and controlling occupational health risks, including chemical, physical and biological hazards.
• Experience interpreting occupational exposure monitoring data and providing practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Experience ensuring compliance with occupational health legislation, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Experience developing occupational hygiene strategies, health risk assessments, monitoring programmes and governance frameworks.

Qualifications for the Lead Occupational Hygienist

• Degree (or equivalent qualification) in Occupational Hygiene, Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics or a related scientific discipline.
• BOHS Certificate of Operational Competence in Occupational Hygiene, or an equivalent recognised qualification.
• Membership of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) or an equivalent professional body.

Preferred

• Chartered status or progress towards chartership would be advantageous.

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 at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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

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.

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