Confined Space Coordinator

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 Confined Space Coordinator at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role

As a Confined Space Coordinator, you’ll take on a safety-critical position at the heart of our Submarine Business Unit. Working across a complex nuclear environment, you’ll coordinate all confined space activities, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance and operational excellence. This is a fast-paced and highly dynamic role where no two days are the same. You’ll collaborate with multiple teams to enable essential defence projects, supporting the delivery and maintenance of critical submarine programmes. Alongside this, you’ll benefit from a structured training and development programme designed to support your long-term career growth.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Coordinate confined space activities, ensuring safe systems of work are in place and followed
• Manage the confined space entry control system and maintaining accurate status records
• Organise site controls including ventilation, lighting, scaffolding, gas monitoring equipment and rescue support
• Support risk assessments and advising on hazard controls alongside health and safety teams
• Ensure atmospheric testing and certification are completed before work is authorised

This is a full-time, onsite role based at Devonport Royal Dockyard. The position follows OWP Pattern 1, which includes a rotating schedule of day and back shifts, with one weekend in every four worked as part of the standard shift pattern.

Essential experience of the Confined Space Coordinator

• Demonstrating knowledge of confined space risks and relevant safety legislation
• Understanding permit-to-work systems and safe working practices in controlled environments
• Experience operating within a Safe System of Work framework
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex operational setting
• Strong communication skills with experience coordinating multiple stakeholders

Qualifications for the Confined Space Coordinator

• Functional Skills Level 2 in English
• Functional Skills Level 2 in Information and Communications Technology
• Authorised Gas Tester certification – Desirable
• IOSH or equivalent health and safety training – Desirable
• Risk assessment training – Desirable
• Confined space working qualifications (low, medium or high risk) - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Baseline Personal Security Standard (BPSS) 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: 05/06/202