Job Title: Health Physicist
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73771
Help shape the future of nuclear safety 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 Health Physicist at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Health Physicist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring the safe delivery of nuclear-related projects, helping to protect people, infrastructure and the environment. Working on the 3 Dock Redevelopment at Rosyth, you’ll be at the forefront of implementing and embedding world-class radiological safety standards.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Providing expert advice on radiological safety across nuclear-related projects
- Supporting hazard identification and risk assessments for designs and operations
- Implementing radiological protection measures, including shielding and containment systems
- Advising on monitoring, dosimetry, ventilation and emergency arrangements
- Collaborating with project teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and site licence requirements
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements on a flexible basis.
Essential experience of the Health Physicist
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Demonstrating experience in a similar role or transferable expertise in radiological protection
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Applying strong analytical skills to solve complex technical challenges
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Communicating clearly and confidently with a wide range of stakeholders
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Building effective relationships and influencing decision-making across teams
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Managing challenging situations with resilience and professionalism, with knowledge of emergency planning or REPPIR 2019 being advantageous
Qualifications for the Health Physicist
- A degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent experience in radiological protection
- Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant subject is desirable
- Accredited Radiation Protection Advisor status or happy to work towards is desirable
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: 23/06/2026
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