Job Title: Safety Health and Environment Practitioner
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72375
Help shape a safer future for people, the environment and national 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 Safety Health and Environment Practitioner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Safety Health and Environment Practitioner, you’ll will play a critical role in helping ensure Babcock remains a safe, healthy and environmentally responsible organisation. Working at the heart of major refit and defueling projects, you’ll help implement strategic and operational SHE plans that directly support our mission to deliver world‑class engineering solutions for national defence.
Day-to-day, you’ll partner with teams across the dockyard, influence safer ways of working and make a measurable impact on the wellbeing of colleagues, the public and the environment. You’ll also have opportunities to grow your career across our SHE and wider engineering functions.
- Providing advice on safe systems of work and supporting managers and risk assessors with developing effective risk assessments.
- Supporting the Health and Safety Manager to promote safe working practices through preventative and remedial initiatives.
- Supporting the delivery of the health, safety and environmental audit programme and maintaining accurate records.
- Carrying out regular workplace inspections and informal walkabouts to monitor safe‑working compliance.
- Assisting with event investigations, ensuring lessons learned drive continuous improvement and incident prevention.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Safety Health and Environment Practitioner
- Demonstrable passion for Safety, Health and Environment, supported by evidence at interview.
- Extensive relevant SHE experience in a hazardous industry (e.g., construction), ideally with knowledge of dockyard or naval operations.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant regulations and legislation.
- Experience working with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 and environmental permitting requirements.
- Basic understanding of nuclear site licence requirements - Desirable
Qualifications for the Safety Health and Environment Practitioner
- Level 3 accredited Health and Safety Qualification (e.g., NEBOSH General Certificate).
- Ambition to achieve Chartered status with IOSH or similar body.
- NEBOSH Diploma / NVQ Level 6+ in Occupational Safety & Health - Desirable
- Approved Auditor qualification (or equivalent experience) - Desirable
- NEBOSH General Certificate in Environmental Management Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
Babcock
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: 27/03/2026
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