Safety and Health Improvements Advisor

Fusion Energy Base; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension

Bonus program

Generous pension contribution

Holiday allowance

Christmas site closure

Flexible working

Job summary

UKAEA is seeking a Safety and Health Improvements Advisor to shape and deliver initiatives that strengthen health, safety and wellbeing across the organisation. You will work with teams to drive improvement programmes, analyse data and support practical solutions that enhance safety culture and compliance.

You will lead projects, deliver safety training, and collaborate with Safety and Health Partners to embed enhancements, with regular onsite presence at Culham, Oxfordshire.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Certificate required and knowledge of safety disciplines.
• Experience in behavioural safety, risk assessment and COSHH.
• Experience in complex technical or industrial environments.
• Experience delivering safety training programmes and awareness activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead allocated safety and health improvement projects independently.
• Support delivery of larger safety and health programmes.
• Contribute to safety assurance activities including inspections and reviews.
• Gather stakeholder feedback to identify weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
• Develop guidance, training materials and content for new processes.

Skills

Behavioural Safety

Risk Assessment

COSHH Management

Safety Training Delivery

Autonomy in Work Packages

Onsite Presence

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Job description

Safety and Health Improvements Advisor

Overview of Responsibilities

About us

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research organisations to achieve ground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid by developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.

About the job

As a Safety and Health Improvements Advisor, you will help shape and deliver initiatives that strengthen health, safety and wellbeing across UKAEA. Working closely with teams across the organisation, you will drive improvement programmes, analyse performance data and support the development of practical solutions that enhance safety culture and compliance. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping create a safe, healthy and high-performing environment that enables world-leading research and engineering.

What You’ll be Doing

• Lead allocated safety and health improvement projects, managing delivery and outcomes independently.
• Support the delivery of larger safety and health improvement programmes across the organisation.
• Contribute to safety assurance activities, including inspections, monitoring and improvement reviews.
• Gather and evaluate feedback from stakeholders to identify process weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
• Develop procedural guidance, training materials and supporting content to enable successful implementation of new and revised processes.
• Collaborate with Safety and Health Business Partners to embed and sustain SHE improvements.
• Analyse safety performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver safety training, toolbox talks and awareness activities across a range of health and safety topics.
• Manage safety communications, procedural updates and document workflows to maintain accurate and effective information.
• Support safety committees and working groups, capturing insights and recommendations that inform the improvement programme.

What You’ll Bring

• NEBOSH Certificate.
• Knowledge of safety disciplines including Behavioural Safety, Risk Assessment and COSHH Management.
• Experience working in a health and safety role within a complex technical, engineering, industrial or scientific environment.
• Experience developing and delivering safety training programmes and awareness activities.
• Ability to manage defined work packages and deliver improvement activities with a high degree of autonomy.
• Knowledge of confined space safety, investigations, root cause analysis, auditing, inspections or safety management systems would be advantageous.
• UKAEA is an onsite organisation, and this role requires regular onsite presence (usually between 3-5 days in any given week) in line with business needs. We actively support flexible working arrangements where this is compatible with the role.

Benefits

We have a generous range of benefits (see the full list here) and highlights include:

• A salary of £40,402 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
• Up to 7% corporate performance bonus
• Final salary defined benefits pension scheme with an equivalent of 21.5% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave plus 2.5 privilege days; 8 Bank Holidays
• 3 days of site closure over Christmas break
• Flexible working options plus family-friendly leave provisions

Our commitment to ED&I

UKAEA’s mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce. Please email [e-mail] if you have any questions or require adjustments to help you participate fairly in our recruitment process, for example changes to the way we interview or share information. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All appointments are made on merit and further information can be found here.

Salary

£40,402 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension View benefits

Programme

• Programme
• Department Safety, Health and Environment
• Discipline Engineering
• Site Location UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
• Type of Employment Full‑time
• Reference Number REF4529L
• Qualifications
• Additional Information