At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide expert health, safety, and environmental advice on critical nuclear projects.
- Company: Join Cavendish Nuclear, a leader in creating a safe and secure world.
- Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, matched pension scheme, and access to health consultations.
- Other info: Flexible working options and excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a lasting impact on safety in one of the UK's most important industries.
- Qualifications: NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent experience required.
The predicted salary is between 51500 - 63500 £ per year.
Location: Moor Row, Cumbria (Hybrid Working Arrangement)
Compensation: £51,500 - £63,500 DOE + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Help shape safer projects and make a lasting impact in one of the UK's most important industries. At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HSE Advisor based at our Moor Row, Cumbria site.
The role:
As a HSE Advisor, you'll be a trusted safety professional supporting the delivery of critical nuclear projects and operational activities.
Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To:
- Provide expert health, safety and environmental advice across projects and operational activities
- Conduct risk assessments, audits, inspections and investigations to identify improvement opportunities
- Support compliance with legislation, industry standards and company procedures
- Analyse safety performance data, identifying trends and implementing improvement initiatives
- Build strong relationships with project teams, customers and external stakeholders to promote a positive safety culture
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and based in Cumbria. Flexible working arrangements are available with hybrid working options.
Essential Experience Of The HSE Advisor:
- Demonstrable experience working within a health, safety and environmental role
- Strong understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation, regulations, standards and best practice
- Experience carrying out risk assessments, incident investigations and safety performance improvement activities
- Ability to analyse data, identify trends and develop effective improvement plans
- Experience influencing stakeholders and promoting a proactive safety culture
Qualifications For The HSE Advisor:
- Minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent experience
- Membership of a recognised professional body such as the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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 Cavendish 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.
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’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: 15/07/2026
