Site Investigator
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Site Investigator in Plymouth and play a key role in enhancing safety and compliance within a critical defence and nuclear engineering environment. You will lead investigations, identify lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead investigations into significant operational events.
- Produce high-quality investigation reports.
- Provide expert guidance and mentoring to stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with relevant safety standards.
- Promote organisational learning and continuous improvement.
- Must be a sole UK national eligible for SC clearance.
// Role Specification
Site Investigator
At Babcock, we're dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Site Investigator at our Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, you will be integral to maintaining and improving safety, compliance, and operational excellence within one of the UK's most vital defence and nuclear engineering hubs.
Working within the Safety & Assurance function and the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Investigation Team, your primary responsibility will be to lead investigations into significant operational events. This crucial role will help identify lessons learned, enhance performance, and prevent future incidents. It's a unique opportunity to influence safety culture, foster organisational learning, and contribute to the continued safe operation of critical national infrastructure.
You will collaborate with technical specialists, operational teams, and senior stakeholders, developing your expertise in a highly regulated and complex environment. This is a full-time, permanent position, 35 hours per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and support investigations into events of varying complexity and severity across the Devonport site.
- Produce high-quality investigation reports that identify causal factors, organisational vulnerabilities, and improvement opportunities.
- Provide expert guidance, coaching, and mentoring to investigators and stakeholders across the business.
- Support investigation governance, assurance activities, and regulatory engagement to ensure compliance with relevant standards.
- Promote organisational learning by sharing lessons identified and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Essential Experience:
- Strong understanding of health and safety legislation, nuclear site licence conditions, nuclear safety cases, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Proven experience leading independent investigations and producing robust, evidence-based reports.
- Experience applying Human Organisational Performance and human performance principles to identify learning and improvement opportunities.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively.
Essential Qualifications:
- TOPSET Senior Investigator qualification.
- TOPSET Licensed Tutor qualification.
- NEBOSH General Certificate.
- Training in Human Organisational Performance Principles and Human Factors Fundamentals.
- Submarine Product Safety Awareness training.
Advantageous Experience:
- Experience using investigation and safety management systems, including SharePoint and Synergi Life.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for Reservists
- Holiday Trading
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to building a future that lasts, offering meaningful careers with respect for work-life balance. We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications for flexible working.