Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

Job Title:                     Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF75510

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 Safety Performance and Learning Advisor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Safety Performance and Learning Advisor, you’ll play a key role in strengthening safety performance and continuous improvement across our Naval Nuclear business. Supporting the Health and Safety team, you'll help ensure compliance with company safety arrangements while promoting organisational learning through effective event management, performance reporting and action tracking.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a highly regulated environment where your work will directly support operational safety, business improvement and the delivery of critical defence programmes. You'll work with stakeholders across the organisation, helping turn lessons learned into meaningful improvements that make a real difference.

• Monitoring and tracking safety events throughout their lifecycle, supporting Event Owners and Investigators to achieve timely closure and action completion.
• Supporting SHE performance meetings and presenting safety performance reports and dashboards to stakeholders across the business.
• Facilitating event reviews and action effectiveness meetings to ensure improvements are embedded and sustained.
• Producing and analysing safety performance data to identify trends and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with operational teams to promote learning from events and strengthen compliance with health and safety requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

• Experience within a safety, assurance or health and safety environment.
• Experience using Synergi Life or a similar safety management database.
• Strong data analysis, reporting and performance monitoring capability.
• Advanced IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and support colleagues at all levels.

Qualifications for the Safety Performance and Learning Advisor

• IOSH Managing Safely qualification or equivalent experience.
• Advanced Excel skills.

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: 01/09/2026

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