Facility Control Officer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Facility Control Officer in Plymouth, managing and coordinating complex nuclear facilities to ensure safety, security, and operational readiness. Play a vital governance and safety leadership role at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
// Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for safe control, coordination, and release of work, including nuclear-implicated activities.
- Act as the representative of the Plant Management Group, ensuring operations meet safety cases and regulatory requirements.
- Influence safe behaviours and support the readiness of strategic infrastructure assets.
- Collaborate with project, engineering, and operational teams.
- Full-time, permanent role with potential for shift-based operations in the future.
- Requires sole UK National status and ability to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Facility Control Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the safety, security, and mission-readiness of complex nuclear facilities.
Key Responsibilities
In this vital governance and safety leadership role, you will act as the representative of the Plant Management Group. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the safe control, coordination, and release of work, ensuring all activities, including nuclear-implicated tasks, are conducted in line with plant safety cases and regulatory requirements.
- Working closely with project, engineering, and operational teams to influence safe behaviours and support the future readiness of one of the UK’s most strategic infrastructure assets.
- Challenging and intervening where necessary to uphold safety standards across all levels.
- Collaborating with project, engineering, and dockside teams to de-conflict activities.
- Supporting governance activities and contributing to the broader management of plant and infrastructure.
Role Details
This is a full-time, permanent position working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Please note that the role is expected to transition to a shift-based pattern in the coming years to support 24/7 operations.
Essential Experience
- Experience working within a regulated, safety-critical, or nuclear environment.
- Demonstrable ability to challenge unsafe behaviours and influence safety culture.
- Proven experience as a safety leader within operational facilities.
- Strong understanding of controlled work release and permit-to-work processes.
- Nuclear submarine or nuclear facility experience is advantageous.
Qualifications
- NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Nuclear safety or assurance-related courses are desirable, including nuclear plant or quality training.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National and will be required to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Eligibility may be affected by nationality, place of birth, current or former citizenship, and residency status.
What We Offer
Babcock offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for reservists
- Holiday Trading options
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing.
About Babcock
Join Babcock, a global FTSE 100 organisation, where your work contributes to national security and public infrastructure. We are committed to building an inclusive culture and are a disability confident committed employer. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.