Job Title: Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74660
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 Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be embedded within submarine operations, supporting complex engineering activities in a highly regulated nuclear environment. This is an opportunity to influence safety performance where it matters most, partnering directly with operational teams to manage risk, drive continuous improvement, and help deliver vital defence programmes that protect national security.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Providing expert health, safety and environmental advice to operational teams, managers and stakeholders.
- Conducting workplace inspections, audits and safety reviews to identify hazards and promote best practice.
- Supporting risk assessments and reviewing safe systems of work to ensure compliance with company standards and legislation.
- Investigating incidents, accidents and near misses, identifying root causes and driving corrective actions.
- Collaborating with engineers, contractors and project teams to deliver safety improvements and foster a positive safety culture.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of three days onsite at Rosyth per week.
Essential experience of the Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor
- Experience in a health, safety and environmental advisory role within a high-risk industry such as marine, shipbuilding, engineering, power generation, manufacturing or construction.
- Proven ability to influence operational teams and managers to effectively manage risk and maintain safe working practices.
- Experience conducting inspections, audits and compliance reviews, identifying hazards and implementing practical controls.
- Experience investigating incidents and near misses, including root cause analysis and corrective action management.
- Strong working knowledge of United Kingdom health and safety legislation within a highly regulated environment.
Qualifications for the Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor
- NEBOSH Certificate (Level 3) in Occupational Health and Safety, or an equivalent recognised qualification.
- IOSH membership or membership of a similar professional body is desirable
- Working knowledge of Construction Design and Management Regulations is desirable
- Experience of nuclear industry standards, regulatory frameworks or other highly regulated environments would be advantageous
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
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 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: 16/07/2026
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