Job Description

Job Title: Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Advisor

Location: Wareham, Dorset + Occasional Travel

Compensation: £45,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73774

Create a safer, more secure future with Babcock

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Advisor at Bovington, Dorset.

The role

As a Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Advisor, you’ll play a vital role in strengthening our safety culture and driving continuous improvement across our Land business. Your work will directly support operational teams, strengthen risk management, and help ensure that our people, customers and environments remain protected. It’s an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while growing your career in a supportive and purpose‑driven organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Supporting operational managers to embed safe working practices and strengthen accountability for HSE.
• Providing expert advice to drive cultural change and improve HS&E performance.
• Conducting compliance and assurance activities across statutory, customer and internal requirements.
• Delivering clear, practical feedback that promotes continuous improvement.
• Supporting risk assessments and safe systems of work across UK and overseas activities.

This is a full-time, on site role based in Bovington, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Advisor:

• Experience working in a full‑time health and safety role.
• Confident using computers, with strong written communication skills.

Qualifications for the Safety, Health and Environmental Protection Advisor

• NEBOSH Level 3 Certificate in Health & Safety or equivalent.
• Full UK driving licence.

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: 29/05/2026