HR Business Partner

Job Title:                     HR Business Partner

Location:                     Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF64260

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 Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a HR Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We’re seeking a self-motivated HR Business Partner to support a portfolio of engineering businesses across the UK. You'll play a key role in driving the unified people strategy across the Babcock Nuclear sector—partnering with senior leaders and HR experts to deliver impactful solutions that boost performance, shape culture, and enable change in a fast-paced, complex environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll drive and deliver people-focused change projects aligned to sector strategy—collaborating with stakeholders to develop fit-for-purpose solutions, solve business challenges, apply data insights, track impact through KPIs, and support capability development through policy, process, and behavioural improvements.

• Lead and deliver change projects, collaborating with HR and business leaders to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Tackle complex business challenges with a holistic, impact-aware approach.
• Use data and analytics to guide decision-making and identify priority areas.
• Define and track KPIs to measure the effectiveness of implemented solutions.
• Develop policies and processes based on best practice, supporting capability growth and alignment with organisational goals.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements. Attendance at work location expected to be a minimum of 3 days per week and there will be some occasional travel requirements.

Essential experience of the HR Business Partner

• Proven HR Business Partner experience, with expertise in culture and change management within unionised, complex environments.
• Strong project leadership across multi-site, multi-disciplinary organisations.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, relationship-building, and balancing diverse priorities.
• Broad HR knowledge, with deep understanding of functional areas and change methodologies.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and make data-driven decisions.

Qualifications for the HR Business Partner

• Level 7 or equivalent HR qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Chartered member of the CIPD and committed to continuous professional development. 

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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: 04/07/2025

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