Location: Barrow-In-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensuring that there is timely and consistent advice, support, coaching and governance of SHE (Safety, Health and Environment) standards and legislation to support all activities across the organisation
• To support in the development and embedding of a robust and compliant environmental practice within the Submarines business and support the SHE improvement programme
• Supporting, leading and delivering key risk reduction and improvement projects / activities
• Ensure professional and accountable interface with all stakeholders including all functional leads, regulators, contractors, and customers
• To ensure all applicable aspects of the Safety, Health and Environment Operational Plan and Strategy is delivered to schedule across all submarine sites
• Provide support to audits and investigations, producing comprehensive reports with root cause analysis

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge of environmental management and environmental risk assessment/aspect and impact assessment
• The ability to interpret and apply formal Regulations, best practice and guidance
• Proven written and verbal communication skills including stakeholder interaction report writing and investigative skills  
• Proven background of driving a positive environmental culture

Desirable:

• Proven background of undertaking audit and investigations
• Worked in a regulated / heavily regulated environment
• Ability to deliver training / coaching
• Environmental responsibility as part of a previous role

Essential Qualification:

• Degree or higher level qualification in environmental or science based subject, or IEMA qualification / NVQ Level 3 in Environmental Management

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The SHE team:

Would you like to work in a team who helps to keep the business and its people safe, healthy and environmentally compliant?

As an Environmental Advisor with the Safety, Health and Environment Team, you will be involved in one of the most exciting engineering programmes in the UK, providing professional environmental advice to ensure environmentally compliant and safe construction, test and delivery of Nuclear Submarines.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 18th April 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.