SHE Advisor - ICS

Location: Portsmouth, Filton, Yeovil, Plymouth, Frimley, Farnborough, Weymouth, HMNB Clyde with the ability to travel. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Negotiable depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensuring that there is timely and consistent advice, support, assurance and governance of SHE standards and legislation to support all activities across the organisation.
• Supporting in the development and embedding of an improved safety culture within the Submarines business and support the SHE improvement programme.
• Enabling the build operations teams through the SHE plan and committee framework. Development, governance and assurance of the process, provision of data in relation to risk assessments accident statistics etc.
• Supporting the risk cells through SHE plans as the conduit for risk reduction projects.
• Focusing on the transition from reactive to proactive development of LfE process to left shift SHE and enable a zero accident focus.
• Ensure professional and accountable interface with all stakeholders including all functional leads, regulators, contractors, and customers.
• To ensure all applicable aspects of the Safety, Health and Environment Operational Plan and Strategy is delivered to schedule across all submarine sites.
• Provide support to audits and accident / near miss investigations, producing comprehensive reports with root cause analysis.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Experience of working as a SHE professional in a high risk environment.
• Knowledge of SHE Regulations, Approved Codes of Practice and Guidance.
• Evidence in previous roles of driving safety culture, safety improvements and investigations.
• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent.
• Evidence of implementing wellbeing improvement.

Desirable

• Audit and investigation skills.
• Experience of working in a Manufacturing, Production or Construction environment.
• Ability to deliver training / coaching.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The SHE team:

As a SHE Advisor, you will be involved in one of the most exciting engineering programmes in the UK, providing professional and accurate SHE advice to ensure safe systems of work in the construction and delivery of both Astute and Dreadnought Submarines and the development of future products. This role will provide an opportunity to gain a breadth of knowledge across various areas of the build and or non-build delivery organisation whilst providing an opportunity to develop SHE professional skills and experience in a high-risk environment. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 23rd April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.