Emergency Planner in Rosyth

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the response. Protect the future. 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 Emergency Planner at our Rosyth site.

The role:

As an Emergency Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in safeguarding people, assets, and critical infrastructure within a highly regulated nuclear and defence environment. This is an exciting opportunity to support the development and delivery of emergency preparedness strategies, ensuring readiness for complex scenarios that are critical to national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Deliver emergency response exercises, including planning and coordinating large-scale demonstration events with regulators and emergency services.
• Support the management and training of the Nuclear Emergency Response Organisation, ensuring operational readiness.
• Maintain emergency plans, systems, and response facilities to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies to strengthen emergency preparedness across the site.
• Advise on emergency response and resilience activities within a nuclear and defence environment.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and is based on site at Rosyth. There may be opportunities for hybrid working arrangements where business needs allow.

Essential experience of the Emergency Planner:

• Demonstrating recent experience in an emergency planning or emergency response environment.
• Applying knowledge within a regulatory or compliance-driven setting.
• Implementing or advising on emergency arrangements and command-and-control frameworks.
• Understanding resilience, compliance, and emergency management principles.
• Using Microsoft Office tools confidently, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Qualifications for the Emergency Planner:

• Nuclear Accident Procedures Course (NAPC) is desirable but not essential.

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:

• 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.
• ‘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.