Environmental, Health and Safety Advisor in Bristol

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Environmental Health and Safety Advisor at our Ashton Vale or Ashton Cross sites.

The role

As an Environmental Health and Safety Advisor, you’ll be a key member of the Environmental, Health and Safety team, providing practical advice and guidance across part of the Mission Systems business. You'll support managers and colleagues in maintaining high standards of environmental, health and safety performance while helping to develop initiatives that strengthen our safety culture and operational excellence.

Day-to-day, you’ll have a role that offers excellent exposure to a wide range of stakeholders and provides opportunities to develop specialist expertise in areas such as environmental protection, sustainability, occupational health and hygiene, fire safety, and workplace compliance.

• Providing competent environmental, health and safety advice and support to managers and employees across the business.
• Conducting workplace inspections and audits to ensure compliance with legislation, company requirements, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards.
• Supporting investigations into environmental, health and safety events and helping implement effective corrective actions.
• Contributing to safety improvement plans, performance reporting and key business initiatives.
• Leading or supporting specialist workstreams focused on areas such as sustainability, environmental management, occupational health, fire safety and regulatory compliance.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Environmental Health and Safety Advisor

• Experience working as an Environmental, Health and Safety Advisor or within an operational health and safety role for a minimum of two years within an industrial or complex environment.
• Experience communicating safety risks, deficiencies and improvement actions to stakeholders at all levels of an organisation.
• Experience working within ISO-certified management systems.
• Experience building effective relationships and influencing stakeholders to drive improvements in environmental, health and safety performance.
• Experience supporting compliance, auditing or continuous improvement activities within a regulated environment.

Qualifications for the Environmental Health and Safety Advisor

Essential

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent Level 3 health and safety qualification.

Preferred

• Membership of IOSH or another relevant professional body.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6 qualification.
• Qualification in Environmental Management and/or Sustainability.

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.

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.
• ‘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 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: 08/09/2026