Senior SHE Advisor

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Job title: Senior SHE Advisor
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. This role is fully on site
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
Championing a proactive and continually improving safety culture, ensuring full compliance with all relevant Company Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) legislation
Leading, developing, and supporting a high-performing team within a complex and regulated safety engineering environment
Driving the implementation and continuous improvement of the SHE management system across the programme
Ensuring adherence to the SHE Management System, identifying and mitigating risks to enhance overall SHE performance
Embedding the SHE management strategy throughout the programme, applying the principles of CDM (Construction Design and Management) where applicable
Influencing vessel design to optimise buildability and reduce risks during construction and commissioning phases
Leading projects to identify SHE-related risks and opportunities, capturing lessons learned to improve cost forecasting, product design, and production efficiency
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Proven experience as a SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) professional within high-risk or complex operational environments
Strong working knowledge of SHE legislation, including relevant regulations, Approved Codes of Practice, and industry guidance
Demonstrated ability to influence and drive a positive safety culture, delivering measurable improvements in safety performance
Hold a NEBOSH Diploma or currently work toward
Desirable:
Strong auditing and incident investigations skills, with the ability to identify root causes and recommend effective corrective actions
Practical experience working within Manufacturing, Production, or Construction environments, ideally in safety-critical sectors
Confident in delivering training and coaching to diverse teams, promoting best practices and continuous improvement in SHE performance
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Non-Build Delivery team:
Join on the UK’s most advanced engineering programmes as a Senior SHE Advisor, where you’ll play a critical role in the Non-Build Delivery Team to ensure safe systems of works throughout the non-build organisational environment such as Site & Facilities, Logistics, Maintenance, Quality, etc. In this position you will provide accurate, professional SHE guidance across a dynamic and high-risk environment.
This is a unique opportunity to broaden your experience across multiple disciplines while developing your SHE expertise within a complex and high-profile programme. We offer relocation support across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you will be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically leave 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending in the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 31 st July 2025
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.
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Location:
Askam-In-Furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Category:
Safety, Health And Environment

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