Safety Culture Lead

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Plymouth seeks a Safety Culture Lead to implement safety strategy and foster cultural transformation. This role entails leading assessments, collaborating with teams, and managing cultural change initiatives. Candidates should possess a degree in Psychology or a related field and demonstrate relevant experience. The position offers a full-time contract with generous benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special leave for reservists

'Be Kind Day' for volunteer work

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in large-scale behavioural and cultural change initiatives.
• Familiarity with safety culture maturity models and their application.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills.
• Experience managing and developing teams.
• Ability to influence workplace culture and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Developing and leading the safety culture strategy and communication improvement plan.
• Conducting assessments, surveys, workshops, and interviews to measure safety culture.
• Collaborating with leadership and frontline teams to promote safety awareness.
• Working with the Learning from Experience team to analyse incidents.
• Planning and delivering seminars, training, and workshops.

Skills

Behavioural change initiatives

Safety culture maturity models

Facilitation and communication skills

Team management

Influencing workplace culture

Education

Degree in Psychology, Human Factors or related discipline

Job description

Overview

As a Safety Culture Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be at the forefront of driving behavioural and cultural transformation across one of the UK's most critical defence sites. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national defence while advancing your career in a dynamic and purpose-driven environment. Day-to-day, you'll lead the development and implementation of a safety culture strategy that fosters proactive safety behaviours, improves communication, and enhances performance across all levels of the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Developing and leading the safety culture strategy and communication improvement plan
• Conducting assessments, surveys, workshops and interviews to measure and improve safety culture
• Collaborating with leadership and frontline teams to promote safety awareness and engagement
• Working with the Learning from Experience team to analyse incidents and identify improvement areas
• Planning and delivering seminars, training and workshops across the organisation

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience

• Proven experience in large-scale behavioural and cultural change initiatives
• Familiarity with safety culture maturity models and their application
• Strong facilitation and communication skills
• Experience managing and developing teams
• Ability to influence workplace culture and drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Degree in Psychology, Human Factors or a related discipline (Extensive equivalent demonstrable experience will be considered)

Security clearance

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

About Babcock

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

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).

Benefits

• 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 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