Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Job summary

Babcock in Plymouth, Devonport Dockyard, is seeking a Safety Performance and Learning Advisor to support the Health and Safety team with data coordination, reporting and learning across the business.

You will maintain safety event records, track actions, produce performance information, support meetings and investigations, and help share lessons learned to strengthen safety culture in a highly regulated defence environment.

Qualifications

• Administrative or coordination background with records management duties.
• Experience producing reports and managing data for insights.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Willingness to learn health, safety and compliance processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate safety event records and ensure actions are tracked through to completion.
• Prepare reports, spreadsheets and trend analyses to support the Health and Safety team.
• Support meetings by organizing documentation and recording actions.
• Communicate lessons learned across the business to promote safety culture.
• Provide admin support for investigations and improvement initiatives.

Skills

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Data reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Title: Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Performance and Learning Advisor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Safety Performance Coordinator, you'll play an important role in helping our Naval Nuclear business maintain a strong safety culture and continuously improve the way we work. Supporting the Health and Safety team, you'll help coordinate safety-related activities, maintain accurate records, monitor actions and support the sharing of lessons learned across the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong administrative or coordination background who enjoys working with data, managing processes and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders. In this role, you'll help track safety events and actions, produce reports and performance information, support meetings and investigations, and ensure important learning and improvement activities are effectively captured and communicated across the business. You'll gain valuable experience in a highly regulated environment, developing skills in safety, compliance, reporting and continuous improvement while contributing to the delivery of critical defence programmes.

• Coordinating and maintaining safety event records, ensuring actions are accurately tracked, updated and progressed through to completion.
• Preparing reports, spreadsheets, performance information and trend analysis to support the Health and Safety team and wider business, helping to identify opportunities for process improvement and best practice sharing.
• Supporting meetings by organising documentation, recording actions and helping to ensure agreed actions are progressed.
• Working with stakeholders across the business to communicate lessons learned, promote a positive safety culture, and support safety, compliance and continuous improvement activities.
• Providing administrative and coordination support for safety investigations, reporting and improvement initiatives, ensuring learning is effectively captured and shared.

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

Essential experience of the Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

• Experience in an administrative, coordination, business support, compliance or similar role, with responsibility for maintaining records, tracking actions and ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with good working knowledge of Excel for managing data, producing reports and maintaining accurate records.
• Experience producing reports, managing data and using spreadsheets to monitor information, support decision-making and provide business insights.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently and deliver high-quality outputs to deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to work with colleagues at all levels and a willingness to develop knowledge of health, safety and compliance processes.

Qualifications for the Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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

• 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 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 26,000 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: 20/10/2026

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