Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Practitioner in Devon

Help shape a safer future for people, the environment and national defence. 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.

The role involves:

• Playing a critical role in helping ensure Babcock remains a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible organisation.
• Implementing strategic and operational SHE plans that support our mission to deliver world-class engineering solutions for national defence.
• Partnering with teams across the dockyard to influence safer ways of working and make a measurable impact on the wellbeing of colleagues, the public, and the environment.
• Providing advice on safe systems of work and supporting managers and risk assessors with developing effective risk assessments.
• Supporting the Health and Safety Manager to promote safe working practices through preventative and remedial initiatives.
• Supporting the delivery of the health, safety and environmental audit programme and maintaining accurate records.
• Carrying out regular workplace inspections and informal walkabouts to monitor safe working compliance.
• Assisting with event investigations, ensuring lessons learned drive continuous improvement and incident prevention.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrable passion for Safety, Health and Environment, supported by evidence at interview.
• Extensive relevant SHE experience in a hazardous industry (e.g., construction), ideally with knowledge of dockyard or naval operations.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant regulations and legislation.
• Experience working with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 and environmental permitting requirements.
• Basic understanding of nuclear site licence requirements - Desirable.

Qualifications:

• Level 3 accredited Health and Safety Qualification (e.g., NEBOSH General Certificate).
• Ambition to achieve Chartered status with IOSH or similar body.
• NEBOSH Diploma / NVQ Level 6+ in Occupational Safety & Health - Desirable.
• Approved Auditor qualification (or equivalent experience) - Desirable.
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Environmental Management - Desirable.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

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 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.

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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 14/05/2026