Job Title: Construction Health and Safety Specialist
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £45,000 - £50,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59655
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 Construction Health and Safety Specialist at our HMNB Clyde, Faslane site.
The Role
As a Construction Health and Safety Specialist, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be instrumental in ensuring strategic goals and objectives outlined in the health & safety business plan are implemented to the highest of standard.
Day-to-day, you'll provide technical advice and guidance to senior project managers and operational teams around managing and monitoring health & safety during construction / CDM projects.
- Support operational teams through the design phase by reviewing drawings and risk assessments
- Ensure all pre-condition surveys are completed as required
- Support the review and processing of health & safety related documentation
- Identify all non-compliance issues and report through appropriate means
- Undertake reviews of project performance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite at our Faslane site near Helensburgh, and 2 days working from home.
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.
Experience required of the Construction Health and Safety Specialist
- Robust knowledge of health and safety legislation
- Knowledge of CDM regulations 2015
- Knowledge of general construction techniques and principles
Qualifications for the Construction Health and Safety Specialist
- Degree or equivalent qualified in relevant subject
- IOSH certified preferred
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (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.
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 share scheme
- 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- '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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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 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.
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