Job Title: Occupational Health and Hygiene Lead
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Occupational Health and Hygiene Lead at Ashton, near Bristol.
The Role
As an Occupational Health and Hygiene Lead, you’ll step into a role that sits at the heart of our mission. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver a proactive occupational health, hygiene, and wellbeing strategy that protects our people and strengthens our workplace culture across Mission Systems. Your work will directly influence the environments our teams operate in-supporting resilience, empowering managers, and ensuring our people feel at their best. It’s a role where your expertise will truly make a difference, with impact felt across the business, wider society, and your own career progression.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Lead and coordinate our occupational health surveillance programme to ensure full compliance.
2. Manage our external occupational health provider to maintain efficient, quality service delivery.
3. Act as the primary contact for escalations and issues relating to health surveillance.
4. Provide expert advice on workplace health, wellbeing, and reasonable adjustments to managers and employees.
5. Investigate or support investigations into occupational health‑related events and findings.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Occupational Health and Hygiene Lead
6. Proven experience leading and managing occupational health and hygiene functions.
7. Background delivering effective occupational health services.
8. Strong ability to interpret health, hygiene, and wellbeing data to produce actionable insights.
9. Experience managing external contracts relating to occupational health, hygiene, and wellbeing services.
10. Demonstrable success developing and implementing wellbeing strategies and initiatives.
Qualifications for the Occupational Health and Hygiene Lead
Essential:
11. Flexibility on academic and professional background: you may come from a health and safety generalist route or a clinical/medical profession.
12. One or more of the following: Clinical qualification in occupational health (e.g., nurse, physician). Level 3/4 NEBOSH General Certificate (Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety desirable). A relevant qualification in Occupational Hygiene.
Preferred:
13. Membership of a relevant professional body, e.g., Faculty of Occupational Hygiene, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. The successful candidate will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance, but you will need to obtain Security Check (SC) once in post.
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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