SHE Advisor

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension with life

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional Fees

Leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a SHE Advisor at Devonport Royal Dockyard to provide assurance, governance and specialist health and safety advice across operations.

You will conduct audits, identify compliance issues, produce reports and support the deployment of health, safety and environmental management systems while engaging with managers, suppliers and regulators to promote safe working practices.

Qualifications

• Experience auditing health and safety in complex operations.
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and contracts.
• Ability to produce audit reports and management information.
• Experience engaging with external authorities such as the HSE and fire services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct health and safety audits across a range of operations and suppliers.
• Identify compliance and non-compliance issues and provide clear feedback and improvements.
• Produce audit reports and management information to support decision-making.
• Support deployment and continual improvement of health, safety and environmental management systems.
• Engage with managers, employees, suppliers, partners and regulatory bodies to promote safe practices.

Skills

Health & Safety Audits

Regulations knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Audit reporting

Education

NEBOSH Construction Certificate

Job description

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Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: SHE Advisor

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73586

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 SHE Advisor at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology sites.

The role

As a SHE Advisor, you’ll provide assurance, governance and specialist advice that helps ensure legal, contractual and organisational health and safety requirements are met. Working across a complex operational environment, you’ll contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that support safe, compliant and effective delivery across the business.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide independent oversight and assurance activities that help identify both compliance and improvement opportunities across operational areas. This is an excellent opportunity to build on your health and safety expertise within a dynamic defence and engineering environment, while working with a wide range of stakeholders to drive positive safety outcomes. Your work will directly support the management of health and safety risks, helping protect people, operations and the delivery of critical programmes.

• Conduct health and safety audits across a variety of business operations and supplier environments.
• Identify compliance and non-compliance issues, providing clear feedback and recommendations for improvement.
• Produce audit reports and management information to support decision-making and performance monitoring.
• Support the deployment and continual improvement of health, safety and environmental management systems.
• Engage with managers, employees, suppliers, partners and regulatory bodies to promote safe and compliant working practices.

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

Essential experience of the SHE Advisor

• Demonstrable experience conducting health and safety audits within complex operational environments.
• Strong understanding of health and safety legislation, standards and contractual requirements.
• Experience identifying non-compliance and producing clear audit reports and management information.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with managers, employees, suppliers and partners.
• Experience engaging with external authorities such as the Health and Safety Executive, fire service and local regulators.

Qualifications for the SHE Advisor

• NEBOSH Construction Certificate.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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 annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.

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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