Job Title: Safety, Health and Environment Practitioner
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £44,600 – £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75246
Help Shape a Safer Future in a Safety-Critical Environment
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, Health and Environment Practitioner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Safety, Health and Environment Practitioner, you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact in one of the UK's most complex and highly regulated environments.
Day-to-day, you’ll have a varied role that combines hands-on operational support with strategic improvement initiatives, giving you exposure to major projects, senior stakeholders, and safety-critical activities that directly support national security. Whether you're looking to broaden your experience, develop your professional expertise, or progress towards Chartered status, this role offers an outstanding platform for growth and development.
- Supporting the continual improvement of safety, health and environmental performance across operational areas.
- Providing professional SHE advice and guidance to managers, employees, contractors, and project teams.
- Conducting inspections, monitoring activities, and reviewing contractor risk assessments and method statements.
- Investigating incidents and supporting the implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
- Developing and delivering SHE reports, communications, awareness sessions, and improvement initiatives.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard
Essential experience of the Safety, Health and Environment Practitioner
- Demonstrable experience within a health and safety role in a hazardous or high-risk industry such as construction, engineering, nuclear, manufacturing, defence, marine, or heavy industry.
- A minimum of three years' relevant health and safety experience.
- Experience applying health and safety policies, procedures, and standards in an operational environment.
- Experience conducting inspections, monitoring activities, or assurance reviews.
- A genuine passion for safety, health and environmental excellence and continuous improvement.
Qualifications for the Safety, Health and Environment Practitioner
Essential:
- NEBOSH General Certificate or an equivalent Level 3 or higher health and safety qualification.
Desirable:
- Working towards a NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 6, or equivalent qualification in Occupational Safety and Health.
- Environmental management and auditing qualifications.
- A desire to achieve Chartered status with IOSH or a similar professional body.
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 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.
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: 19/08/2026
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