Job Title: Health & Safety Representative
Location: Telford, Shropshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £35, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Drive a Positive Safety Culture Across Defence Operations
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 Representative at DSG Donnington, Shropshire.
The role
As a Health & Safety Representative, you’ll take on an important role supporting operational management teams to embed strong Health, Safety & Environmental (HS&E) practices across our Defence estate. This is a unique opportunity to influence and drive cultural change, help shape safe ways of working and ensure compliance with HS&E standards that protect our people and sites. You’ll work closely with site staff, managers, and the Defence Equipment HSE Team to deliver meaningful improvement and best practice.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Support operational teams with managing HS&E risks and ensuring safe systems of work
2. Collaborate with site management to implement HS&E standards and achieve site safety objectives
3. Work under the guidance of the Defence Equipment HSE Team to deliver HS&E requirements and initiatives
4. Engage proactively with site staff to promote positive HS&E behaviours and best practice
5. Maintain accurate HS&E records, including reporting, documentation and compliance activities.
This role is full time, working Monday to Friday, based at DSG Donnington, Shropshire, with 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Health & Safety Representative:
6. Considerable experience in a full‑time operations role
7. Strong Microsoft Office skills
8. Experience producing clear, concise reports.
Qualifications for the Health & Safety Representative:
9. Full UK driving licence.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.
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