Occupational Health & Hygiene Lead

Babcock Canada Inc.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An international engineering firm in the UK is seeking an Occupational Health & Hygiene Lead to shape and deliver health and wellbeing strategies. You will lead surveillance programs, manage external health providers, and advise on workplace health. Essential experience includes leading occupational health functions and interpreting health data. The role offers competitive compensation and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Flexibility on academic and professional background.
• Membership of a relevant professional body preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate occupational health surveillance programme.
• Manage external occupational health provider.
• Act as primary contact for health surveillance issues.
• Provide expert advice on workplace health and wellbeing.
• Support investigations into occupational health-related events.

Skills

Proven experience leading and managing occupational health and hygiene functions

Background delivering effective occupational health services

Ability to interpret health, hygiene, and wellbeing data

Experience managing external contracts

Success developing and implementing wellbeing strategies

Education

Clinical qualification in occupational health (e.g., nurse, physician)

Level 3/4 NEBOSH General Certificate

Relevant qualification in Occupational Hygiene

Job description

Occupational Health & Hygiene Lead

Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ & Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71292

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate our occupational health surveillance programme to ensure full compliance.
• Manage our external occupational health provider to maintain efficient, quality service delivery.
• Act as the primary contact for escalations and issues relating to health surveillance.
• Provide expert advice on workplace health, wellbeing, and reasonable adjustments to managers and employees.
• 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

• Proven experience leading and managing occupational health and hygiene functions.
• Background delivering effective occupational health services.
• Strong ability to interpret health, hygiene, and wellbeing data to produce actionable insights.
• Experience managing external contracts relating to occupational health, hygiene, and wellbeing services.
• Demonstrable success developing and implementing wellbeing strategies and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Flexibility on academic and professional background: you may come from a health and safety generalist route or a clinical/medical profession.
• 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: 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 18/02/2026