Job Title:                     HR Business Partner

Location:                     Faslane, Helensburgh, UK

Compensation:           Up to £54,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF62725

 

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a HR Business Partner at our Clyde site.

 

The role

As a HR Business Partner you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be working closely with business leaders and line managers to help build organisation and people capability, shape and implement effective people strategies and activities and develop approaches that support the achievement of shared organisational objectives.  Act as the point of people expertise for a business area, leading the implementation of specific people/organisation programs and initiatives, liaising with HR Centres of Expertise and HR Shared Services as required to support the business area.

Day-to-day,you will be establishing and maintaining strong, pro-active partnerships with business leaders and line managers in order to partner with the business on a full range of both strategic and operational HR issues 

Sponsor, lead and ensure the delivery of complex HR and business change projects, ensuring alignment with both the Naval Nuclear and Clyde HR Strategies, and overall business strategy.  Foster and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including colleagues, employees, Managers and Trade Union representatives, in order to ensure positive employee relations, sustain effective working relationships and provide pragmatic and innovative HR solutions.  Keep up-to-date with Employment Law legislation and external best practice in order to be able to apply subject matter expertise to the development of policy, process or approach and ensuring added value to the business. Compile, analyse and present business information to line managers to inform functional and business decisions. Support the development of appropriate skills, knowledge and behaviours across the business to enable managers and employees to achieve business objectives in support of Company values.  This includes use of appropriate levels of coaching and challenging practices where necessary. Ensure the deployment of HR processes, policies and procedures to meet the requirements of the area supported, including ensuring these are fully implemented and deliver the intended benefit to the business or areas supported.

 

This role is full time 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangmnets with 3 days a week  in the office.

 

Essential experience of the HR Business Partner

A deep knowledge of HR professional practice which may be achieved through professional qualification to postgraduate level or equivalent experience  In-depth understanding of the organisation, its strategy and customers, and a very good understanding of the people challenges faced by the organisation. Able to demonstrate / experience in the following: Excellent oral and written communication skills, Negotiation and consultation, Change Management, Conflict Management

 

Qualifications for the HR Business Partner

CIPD Qualified Workforce Resilience Aftercare Incident Reporting

 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

 

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

 

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance  Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+ Employee share scheme  Employee shopping savings portal Payment of Professional Fees Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave  Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

 

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

 

Closing date: 26/03/2025