Job Title: Environmental Practitioner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £37,000 - £46,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF74439
Help protect the environment at the heart of the UK's defence operations
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 Environmental Practitioner at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As an Environmental Practitioner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting submarine and naval operations by ensuring environmental compliance, driving continual improvement and helping protect the environment across a nationally significant defence site. Working alongside operational teams and key stakeholders, you'll influence environmental performance, support sustainability objectives and contribute to projects that have a real impact on national security and critical infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your experience within a unique, highly regulated environment while developing your career with a leading engineering and defence organisation.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Conduct environmental audits and compliance assessments to support environmental legislation, permits and ISO 14001 requirements.
- Manage and continuously improve the Environmental Management System, ensuring processes and documentation remain effective and compliant.
- Support United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme reporting, environmental permitting activities and performance monitoring.
- Investigate environmental incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
- Provide environmental advice, deliver awareness training and drive environmental improvement initiatives across the site.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, working an 8-day fortnight pattern. Working hours alternate between Monday to Thursday, 07:15 – 16:45 one week, and Tuesday to Friday, 07:15 – 16:45 the following week.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Environmental Practitioner
- Proven experience conducting environmental audits and assessing compliance against environmental legislation, permits and ISO 14001 requirements.
- Strong working knowledge of ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, including maintaining and improving environmental processes and documentation.
- Experience supporting United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme reporting, environmental permitting and regulatory compliance activities.
- Experience investigating environmental incidents, undertaking root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders, provide environmental guidance and support continuous improvement within a regulated operational environment.
Qualifications for the Environmental Practitioner
- Higher National Diploma, degree or equivalent qualification in Environmental Studies, Environmental Management or a related discipline.
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Auditor or Lead Auditor qualification.
- Knowledge of the United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme and environmental compliance obligations within a regulated environment is desirable
- Incident investigation training or qualification, such as Kelvin TopSet or equivalent methodology is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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: 20/07/2026
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