Navy Command - Contractor Safety Assistant Management

At Navy Command, we lead, support, and sustain the Royal Navy across every theatre of operations. We coordinate the people, platforms, and missions that keep the Fleet ready for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Together, we uphold centuries of naval tradition while driving innovation that ensures the Royal Navy’s readiness to protect our nation and secure our future.

As the authority for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine capability, the Submarine Directorate oversees one of the most complex and critical elements of UK defence. Covering everything from in‑service management to long‑term fleet modernisation, the directorate ensures the Submarine Flotilla remains safe, reliable, and ready to meet national security requirements.

You will be based at HMNB Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe and a powerhouse of Royal Navy capability. It is home to amphibious ships, survey squadrons, submarines, and two-thirds of the frigate force. With its unique nuclear refitting facility, Devonport ensures the Fleet remains ready to support operations worldwide.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Ready to bring a fresh perspective to safety and help keep a naval base shipshape? Join as our Contractor Safety Assistant Manager, where you’ll turn safety requirements into practical action. From working with contractors and visiting workers to supporting inspections, delivering briefings and leading a small team, you’ll help put safe working at the heart of life at HM Naval Base Devonport. If you enjoy connecting with people, solving problems and making a tangible difference, this could be your next port of call!

What you will do:

• Implement and maintain the 4C’s management system for contractors and visiting workers, ensuring arrangements align with statutory requirements and Ministry of Defence policy.
• Monitor the health, safety and environmental protection performance of contractors and business partners, carrying out inspections, audits and compliance visits and recording findings.
• Lead the Naval Base’s safety induction arrangements and oversee the issue of “T” cards and associated briefings.
• Maintain the Establishment Hazard Register, ensuring relevant hazard information, controls and emergency arrangements are shared with contractors, visiting workers and other stakeholders.
• Oversee the appointment of Building Controllers, providing advice, training and support and ensuring building logs are available and used.
• Provide timely, practical health, safety and environmental protection advice to managers and stakeholders across the Naval Base.
• Support accident and incident reporting and investigations, helping ensure incidents involving contractors and visiting workers receive an appropriate level of investigation.
• Review contractor safety procedures at least annually, check company assessment returns and provide feedback to quality assurance and commercial colleagues.
• Build effective relationships with internal teams, contractors, safety professionals and regulators, representing the safety team at relevant meetings.
• Ensure memoranda of understanding with lodger organisations are kept up to date and signed.
• Fulfill a Line Management and Reporting Officer role for a specialist officer (4C), who shall assist in the delivery of these processes.

Open to UK nationals only.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of Defence Reform, Navy Command continues to review and evolve its Target Operating Model to support more agile ways of working. In this context, the role and responsibilities of this role may develop over time to reflect changing business priorities and opportunities.

At Sift, you will be assessed against the following;

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and qualification details.
• Candidates will be required to provide a personal statement. This should be a maximum of 500 words that sets out your motivation for applying and shows how your skills and experience meet the essential requirements for the role.

Please note feedback will not be provided on your application.

At Interview, you will be assessed against the following success profiles:

Behaviour:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

Further information:

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.