Senior Human Factors Specialist in Helensburgh

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £48,700 - £55,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Champion Human Performance and Safety Culture at the Heart of UK 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 Senior Human Factors Specialist at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role:

As a Senior Human Factors Specialist, you’ll be at the forefront of driving safety culture and human performance across HMNB Clyde. This is a unique opportunity to lead the development and delivery of a site-wide Human Factors Strategy, supporting transformational safety improvement initiatives that make a real difference to our people, operations, and national defence.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be:

• Facilitating and delivering multiple operational safety improvement projects across the site.
• Leading group workshops to drive safety learning and continuous improvement.
• Coaching individuals and teams in using improvement tools and techniques.
• Supporting the Health & Safety Improvement Manager in tasking the Safety Improvement team.
• Mentoring Safety Culture Coordinators and Departmental Coordinators.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience:

• Strong knowledge of legal and statutory frameworks relevant to health, safety and environment.
• Professional expertise in human factors disciplines such as Occupational Psychology or Ergonomics.
• Proven experience in complex human factor analysis and application of diverse tools and techniques.
• Familiarity with safety culture measurement and improvement methodologies.
• Ability to confidently deliver training and facilitate workshops with varied stakeholder groups.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Occupational Psychology, Psychology or equivalent.

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 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.

Closing Date: 06/05/2026