Job Title: Assistant Fire Safety Officer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72965
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Fire Safety Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Assistant Fire Safety Officer, you’ll play a pivotal role in safeguarding our people and operations. Working closely with the Company Fire Officer, you’ll support the identification, assessment and control of fire risks across a large, diverse and highly regulated site.
Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of our behavioural and cultural approach to fire safety, engaging with leaders, employees and contractors to prevent incidents before they happen. From investigating fires and false alarms to supporting training and emergency preparedness, your work will directly reduce risk and strengthen resilience across critical defence infrastructure. It’s an opportunity to grow your fire safety career while contributing to work of national importance.
- Supporting the Company Fire Officer in assessing and controlling fire risks in line with legislation and best practice
- Carrying out fire risk assessments, inspections, audits and reviews across operational areas
- Investigating fires, false alarms and near misses, contributing to corrective actions and continuous improvement
- Promoting fire safety awareness, providing advice and engaging positively with staff and contractors
- Reviewing fire safety documentation and supporting training, drills, exercises and project activity
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Assistant Fire Safety Officer
- Experience in a fire safety, facilities, SHEQ or operational safety role within a complex or high‑risk environment
- Practical experience carrying out or supporting fire risk assessments, inspections and audits
- Experience investigating incidents, near misses or false alarms and supporting action plans
- Proven ability to engage stakeholders at all levels to influence safe behaviours
- Experience working with fire safety legislation, standards and best practice
Qualifications for the Assistant Fire Safety Officer
- NEBOSH Fire Safety Certificate (essential or working towards)
- NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent safety qualification - Desirable
- Recognised Fire Risk Assessment qualification, such as IFE, FSI or equivalent - advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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: 11/05/2026
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