Safety and Compliance Coordinator

Salary: £29,079 - £34,210 (dependent on experience) Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Additional Information: Hybrid - three days per week in Poole Location: Poole, Dorset, England Interview Date: w/c 22nd March 2026 Closing Date: 15-03-2026 Reference: 21283

About us

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.

We’re looking for someone with great organisation and administration skills and an awareness of safety hazards within an engineering design, production and operational environment, to join our Engineering Compliance function. This team helps to keep our people and equipment safe by ensuring our buildings, equipment and engineering activities meet the required safety, regulatory and certification standards.

Some of the benefits

- Salary of £29,079 to £34,210 (dependent on experience) - Flexible working - 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays - Competitive pension scheme (contributions of up to 10% of basic salary) - Life assurance - Health cashplan option

Your role

As our Safety and Compliance Coordinator (known internally as Compliance Support Engineer), you will:

- Assist with the preparation and delivery of workshops with various teams, helping to organise and coordinate these, take notes, save and distribute the outputs of the workshops. - Use your methodical administration skills to keep documents, notes and logs organised and saved appropriately on SharePoint and in other locations. - Work to ensure that compliance documentation aligns with specific processes. - Work with a range of internal and external customers and authorities. - Provide administrative and technical support across compliance activities relating to our lifeboats and their launch and recovery equipment.

About you

To be considered as a Safety and Compliance Coordinator, you will need:

- Experience working in an engineering, safety, compliance or documentation-focused environment. - An awareness of technical hazards (the sort you might find when operating heavy equipment, machinery or boats and their equipment). - Strong organisation and administration skills. - Strong interpersonal communication skills.

Other organisations may call this role Compliance Coordinator, Health and Safety Coordinator, Safety and Risk Coordinator, or H&S Administrator.

If you’re seeking to develop a career in engineering compliance, safety engineering or systems assurance, or think you’d thrive in this environment, have a strong attention to detail and an organised and structured approach to work, please apply via the button shown.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out, dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One