HSE Manager

Job Title: HSE Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Lead the way in creating a safer, more sustainable future

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager at Bristol, near Bath, Somerset.

The role

As a HSE Manager, you'll play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and embedding a proactive safety culture across our Mission Technologies business. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, lead a team of specialist advisors, and drive continuous improvement across health, safety and environmental performance.

You'll provide expert guidance to stakeholders across the organisation, helping ensure our people can perform critical work safely and responsibly while supporting projects that contribute to national security and defence capability. Alongside making a tangible impact on the business, you'll benefit from excellent career development opportunities within a global engineering and technology organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead and developing a team of Health, Safety and Environmental Advisors.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and employees on health, safety and environmental matters.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance compliance, safety performance and environmental standards.
• Conduct and overseeing audits, inspections, incident investigations and risk reduction activities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, regulators and industry bodies to promote best practice.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home. There will be some travel to other Babcock sites when required.

Essential experience of the HSE Manager

• Proven experience in a senior Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE/EHS)
• Experience leading, developing and managing teams of HSE/EHS professionals.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation, compliance requirements and best practice.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and drive continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.

Qualifications for the HSE Manager

• NEEBOSH level 5 or equivalent

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole British National as potential for Developed Vetting (DV) in the future.

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 29, 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.

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