Health and Safety

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Salary

£29,500–£32,500*

*depending on location, role and qualifications

Location

Plymouth

Closing Date

January 1, 2022

About the programme

Our Devonport dockyard is vast and mission-critical. Making management of safety, health, environment and fire across both its nuclear and conventional areas vital. Over the course of two years, you will spend time working with a number of specialist departments that span these different areas, using the full breadth of your specialist knowledge to make a real difference.

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Health and Safety at Babcock

Working as part of the multi-disciplinary Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF) Department, you’ll help ensure that our employees have the right working environment, knowledge, procedures and organisational support to do their jobs and comply with the law, local procedures and best practice. You will undertake a wide variety of challenging and exciting projects, such as risk assessment, incident investigation, sharing and learning from events, assessment of employee exposure, project planning and investigating best available techniques – a breadth of experience that few other employers can provide.

What you'll need

  • 2:2 BSc OR BEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a Health and Safety-related subject or Environmental Science subject with a good understanding of Chemistry and Mathematics
  • To be able to satisfy the MoD’s, and our customer’s security requirements you may need to complete a medical assessment

What you'll get

When you’re part of the team at Babcock, we think it’s only right that you’re properly rewarded for the contribution you make and the hard work you put in. That’s why, in addition to a highly competitive salary, you can look forward to generous pension and employee share schemes, and a whole host of other flexible benefits. These include things like access to our healthcare cash plan, Wellbeing Centre and discounts on everything from gym membership and travel to retail, dining and entertainment. You’ll also have the chance to get involved in our STEM outreach and volunteering activities, which our graduates find incredibly rewarding in all sorts of other ways.

Your career development

At Babcock, we’ll match your passions to your skills, provide you with professional mentoring and help you build a rewarding career as a versatile Health and Safety professional. And as you work towards Chartered status, we’ll give you all the experience you need in areas like Health and Safety (IOSH), Occupational Hygiene (BOHS) and Environment (IEMA).

Babcock seeks to provide a world class graduate experience. As part of our commitment to innovation and excellence, we are partnering with a multi award-winning agency, The Smarty Train, to deliver a new graduate journey. Using a unique blend of science, technology and industry-leading creativity, our promise to graduates is that learning and progression will be part of every day. You will have access to a flexible range of cutting edge resources and in-person support. From instructor-led workshops to immersive virtual experiences, bespoke toolkits, personalised assessments and powerful social platforms, we invite you to achieve your potential at Babcock today.

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Where you'll be based

See below to find out more about the areas of our business that are offering places on our Health and Safety programme for Autumn 2022.

Our business in Plymouth supports the UK Royal Navy in Devonport and around the world, delivering complex ship and submarine sustainment programmes and sustaining critical and complex assets to help maintain national security.

Depending on your programme your home base could be Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. However, some of your placements may be at other Nuclear or Marine sector locations.

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