Health and Safety Advisor

Bridgwater, England, United Kingdom

6/24/2025

Job Title: Health and Safety Advisor

Location: Hinkley Point C Site, Somerset – Onsite

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65560

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Health and Safety Advisor at our Hinkley Point C site.

The role

As a Health and Safety Advisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll support the safe delivery of one of the UK’s largest and most complex nuclear construction programmes by ensuring compliance, providing expert advice, and promoting a strong safety culture across site operations.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with the CommOps team and wider stakeholders to support safe systems of work, conduct inspections and audits, and contribute to the delivery of a collaborative safety-first approach.

• Provide competent health and safety advice across the CommOps organisation
• Ensure compliance with statutory health and safety requirements and identify non-compliances
• Work with departments to monitor safety arrangements across construction and commissioning
• Promote and support a positive safety culture across the HPC site
• Conduct inspections, audits, and review of risk assessments and method statements
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at the HPC project.

Essential Experience Of The Health And Safety Advisor

• Strong understanding of occupational health and safety requirements
• Experience in large project environments with the ability to adapt to change
• Background in inspections, audits, investigations and health and safety reporting
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Health And Safety Advisor

• NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent Level 3 qualification) required
• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent Level 6) is desirable
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March. annually. ‘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.
  
  
  

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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 [email protected] 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: 07/07/2025

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