Job Title: Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection
Location: Hybrid, UK
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead Safety Excellence. Shape The Future. Make A Lasting Impact.
At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection at any of our main UK locations including London, Warrington, Bristol, Devonport, Leicester, Rosyth.
The role
As Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection, you will provide strategic leadership and technical authority across safety, health, wellbeing, and environmental performance at a global level. This is a rare opportunity to influence enterprise-wide standards in a highly regulated, safety-critical organisation, shaping how we manage risk and protect people, assets, and the environment.
You will lead a high-performing central team, defining what good looks like, setting clear standards, and enabling best-in-class performance across the business. Working closely with Senior Leaders and the Executive team, your insights will drive decisions that directly support national security, infrastructure, and defence operations.
This is a career-defining role where your expertise will help create safer operations, stronger environmental stewardship, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.
Essential Experience of the Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection:
Qualifications for the Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection:
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Protection • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB
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