Job Title: Safety Performance Advisor
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72093
Help shape a safer future across one of the UK’s most critical defence and engineering sites
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 Advisor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Safety Performance Advisor, you’ll play a vital role in strengthening safety culture and ensuring continuous improvement across one of the UK’s most complex and strategically important engineering environments. You will help embed robust processes that support learning from events, drive consistent safety performance, and enable operational teams to work confidently and effectively.
Day-to-day, you’ll use your analytical mindset and communication skills to support event management, data accuracy, performance reporting and learning from experience. You will be central to helping Babcock become a true learning organisation, one that values insight, transparency and safety excellence at every level.
- Support event owners and investigators, ensuring events are tracked, monitored and completed successfully.
- Produce and present performance dashboards and SHE reports to support monthly business unit meetings.
- Act as the focal point for accurate event data, ensuring information is captured, coded and maintained for learning and trending.
- Assist with event reviews, action effectiveness meetings and identification of non‑conformances, turning insights into practical improvements.
- Analyse safety performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities for continuous improvement.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Safety Performance Advisor
- Strong working knowledge of the Devonport site, including interfaces with the Naval Base and Authorised Site.
- Understanding of Nuclear Site Licence requirements and experience within defence or highly regulated environments.
- Proficiency in safety management databases (e.g., Synergi Life), with strong numeracy and advanced IT skills.
- Proven commitment to safety standards, professionalism and best practice.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.
Qualifications for the Safety Performance Advisor
- IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent experience - Essential
- Advanced Excel capability - Essential
- Data analysis‑related training or equivalent experience - Desirable
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
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: 06/04/2026
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