SHE Lead (Operational Delivery)

Job Title: SHE Lead (Operational Delivery)

Location: Broad Oak / Portsmouth Naval Base with occasional travel to Cowes, Hillend and Great Baddow

Salary: From £53,000+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• You will be providing professional and accurate SHE advice on the requirements of SHE legislation to the business and company (SHE) procedures across Warship Support and Products, ensuring this is effectively translated to the business context and to agreed timescales
• Ensure you conduct SHE audits, inspections in accordance with internal procedures and ISO 45001 & 14001 requirements, to agreed and communicated schedules
• This role will require you to coordinate and investigate SHE accidents, incidents and non-conformances, producing comprehensive reports with root cause analysis in line with procedural requirements within agreed timescales
• Coaching and mentoring of staff within the business with line management responsibilities for SHE
• You will respond to cross line of business issues and stand in for other leads due to absence or redeployment
• Ensure you participate in and support wider SHE activities, e.g. public events, promotional events
• Regularly review SHE performance with the business and take an active role in seeking innovation for improving SHE delivery
• Lead the SHE Advisor pool (2) including work allocation, pastoral care, performance and functional review input to PDR

Your skills and experiences:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6 qualification (or working towards)
• Experience of coaching and mentoring
• Practical internal auditor skills
• Hold accident/incident investigation skills
• The role holder will have a considerable amount of experience in a SHE related role with a good working knowledge of all SHE disciplines

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:

The award winning safety, health and environment team support activities across Warship Support and Products business, providing day to day operational advice as well as maintaining the management system and undertaking regular engagement with the workforce to promote a positive SHE culture.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 28th May 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.

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