Health and Safety Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance
Job Title: Health and Safety Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £41,000 - £47,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73044
Help Create A Safer Future In A Critical National Environment
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Health and Safety Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Health and Safety (H&S) Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance, you will provide expert guidance across infrastructure and facilities, ensuring compliance with legislation and driving continuous improvement in safety performance. You will play a key role in shaping a proactive safety culture, supporting operational teams, and making a meaningful impact on national defence capabilities.
Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:
- Providing professional health and safety advice to operational teams and stakeholders
- Conducting workplace inspections and assessments to identify hazards and improve safety standards
- Leading investigations into incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and recommending actions
- Supporting audits and ensuring corrective and preventative actions are implemented effectively
- Engaging with teams and committees to promote best practice and continuous improvement
The role is full time, 37 hours per week, based on-site at HMNB Clyde, working an eight-day fortnight - day shift Monday to Thursday, plus every second Friday, working from 7.15am to 4.45pm.
Essential experience of the H&S Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance:
- Proven experience in a Health & Safety role within facilities management, construction, or infrastructure environments
- Strong background in statutory compliance and building compliance, with the ability to interpret and apply H&S legislation in operational settings
- Experience supporting or working within construction/Construction, Design and Management (CDM) environments, including contractor and site safety management
- Experience conducting audits, inspections, and incident investigations
- Experience working with safety management systems and reporting tools
Qualifications for the H&S Practitioner Infrastructure Compliance:
- NEBOSH General Certificate (essential)
- Working towards a Health and Safety degree or NEBOSH Diploma (desirable)
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
- 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
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 18/06/2026
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