Senior SHE Advisor – Contractor Assurance Team

BAE Systems; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior SHE Advisor to lead a dedicated team in enhancing safety standards within a complex environment. This role offers the chance to significantly impact the safety culture in the Submarines division, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations while fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace. You'll engage with various stakeholders, contribute to audits, and drive SHE improvement initiatives. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and empowers its employees to reach their full potential. If you're passionate about safety and leadership, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Green car scheme

Annual incentive eligibility

Relocation support packages

Qualifications

• Experience in managing SHE standards and legislation.
• Strong background in health and safety in high-risk environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage a small team and support SHE Advisors.
• Ensure compliance with SHE standards and legislation.
• Conduct audits and accident investigations.

Skills

Line management experience

Health and Safety Risk management

NEBOSH Diploma

Training and coaching

Audit and investigation skills

Construction environment experience

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or working towards

Job description

Job Title: Senior SHE Advisor – Contractor Assurance Team

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Onsite

Salary: Competitive

What You’ll Be Doing

• Line managing a small team and supporting SHE Advisors with duties and development (2-3, could increase upto 6)
• Ensuring timely and consistent advice, support, coaching and governance of SHE standards and legislation
• Supporting the development of an improved safety culture within the Submarines function and the SHE improvement programme
• Providing professional accountable interface with all stakeholders including functional leads, regulators, contractors, and customers
• Contributing to audits and accident/near miss investigations, producing comprehensive reports with root cause analysis
  
  

Your Skills And Experiences

• Line management experience
• Experience supporting the management and Health and Safety Risk processes in a high risk environment
• NEBOSH Diploma or working towards
• Experience delivering training or coaching
• Audit and investigation skills
• Experience of working in a Construction environment or within the Submarine enterprise or similar
  
  

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The SHE Team

You will operating across the build and construction areas in a very diverse and complex business. There will be opportunities to develop SHE professional skills and gain further certifications.

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 28th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.