Job Title: Health and Safety Representative
Location: Telford, Shropshire and Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + 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 and Safety Representative at DSG Donnington, Shropshire and DSG Ashchurch, Tewkesbury.
The role
As a Health and Safety Representative, you’ll take on an important role supporting operational management teams to embed strong Health, Safety and 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.
The role is site‑based across Donnington and Ashchurch, working a blended pattern of two days per week at each location. Fridays can be worked either from home or from a site office. Occasional support to other sites will also be required.
Essential experience of the Health and 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 and 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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