Occupational Hygiene Lead

Job Title: Occupational Hygiene Lead
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56607

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Occupational Hygiene Lead at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As an Occupational Hygiene Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will develop and evolve our strategy for the management of our occupational health risks.

Day to day, you'll produce a proactive monitoring plan to ensure our controls are effective in keeping our people safe. You'll use the data obtained from monitoring and health surveillance to build a heatmap of areas for focus and improvement. You will also collaborat with stakeholders, including employers and employees, in workplace health risk management. In this role you will also:

• Refining of the organisation's Occupational Hygiene strategy and delivering the workstreams required to meet the strategic outcomes.
• Overseeing and executing the Occupational Hygiene/workplace health risk management program.
• Collating data, conducting statistical analysis, peer reviewing and preparing reports, and regularly updating Occupational Hygiene performance reports the business.
• Creating firm links between Occupational Hygiene and occupational health to promote health and wellbeing across the workforce.

This role is full time - 36 hours and will be predominantly based at on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Flexibility can be discussed and arranged.

Essential experience of the Occupational Hygiene Lead:

• Experience in the production of strategic objectives and overarching strategies.
• Extensive experience in the Occupational Hygiene field, covering a wide range of topics at a senior level.

Qualifications for the Occupational Hygiene Lead:

You will ideally have one of the following

• Minimum Licentiate of the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene (LFOH), holding the BOHS Certificate of Operational Competence in Occupational Hygiene (CertOH).
• Diploma/Bachelor's degree.
• Relevant certifications from the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS).

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 16/05/2024
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