This is a highly visible role working closely with senior leaders, trade unions, and external auditors to shape and strengthen SHE governance across the AIR business. You’ll play a pivotal role in aligning systems, processes, and performance with corporate objectives, driving collaboration across teams, and ensuring robust, compliant frameworks that support operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of SHE professionals, including auditors and management systems specialists, along with a project manager, to deliver SHE governance across the AIR business
- Plan and oversee audit programmes, ensuring effective risk identification and closure of non-conformances (NCRs)
- Use data insights to drive performance, identify trends, and share learning from incidents and accidents
- Coordinate integrated business planning, aligning SME input with SHE strategy and organisational objectives
- Manage governance forums and reporting (audit, risk, environmental), ensuring alignment with the AIR governance framework
- Act as the central point of contact for SHE governance, including supporting acquisitions and overseeing systems, processes, and communications
- Represent the SHE Function on a range of functional working groups to ensure compliance with all BAE Systems mandated policies, such as information & data management and business continuity management
Qualifications
- Good understanding of management systems, including Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality frameworks
- Proven knowledge of audit processes and audit management practices
- Experience leading and developing teams within a governance or operational environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the business
- Familiarity with software and data management systems to support governance and reporting
The SHE Governance and Assurance team: You’ll work at the centre of a highly collaborative network, partnering with senior managers and directors, trade unions, and external auditors to deliver effective SHE governance. The role sits across multiple functions, including SHE, Operations, environmental and subject matter expert teams, with close alignment to Project Management and the central BAE Systems Corporate function. Working in a fast-paced, integrated environment, you’ll play a key role in connecting teams, aligning processes and systems with business objectives, and ensuring governance activities are delivered consistently and on time.
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us. From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
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 previously have 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 have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
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