People Advisor Team Leader - FTC

Job Title:                     People Advisor Team Leader

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                       SF72412

Lead, Inspire and Shape the HR Service at the Heart of a Global Engineering Organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a People Advisor Team Leader at our Devonport site, near Plymouth, Devon.

The role

As a People Advisor Team Leader, you’ll play a vital role in delivering a modern, customer‑focused HR service that supports teams working across defence, aerospace and engineering. This is your opportunity to lead a group of dedicated People Advisors, ensuring they have the tools, direction and confidence they need to support colleagues across the business.

Your leadership will help shape the employee experience, drive service improvements, and strengthen the support offered by our PeopleCentre team. This is a 12‑month fixed‑term contract that offers the chance to make a meaningful impact while continuing to grow your own leadership and people management skills.

Day-to-day, you’ll be working in a collaborative environment where your ideas, initiative and coaching style will directly influence how effectively we support thousands of people delivering critical national capability.

• Leading a team of People Advisors, ensuring service standards and performance expectations are met.
• Motivating and developing the team, providing coaching, feedback and support to help them deliver an excellent customer experience.
• Collaborating with other team leaders and HR colleagues to plan resource levels, forecast workload and maintain service consistency.
• Supporting the team in handling varied queries by encouraging initiative, creative thinking and confident problem solving.
• Ensuring that customer service areas are effectively resourced to meet demand and maintain high levels of service.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the People Advisor Team Leader

• Commitment to delivering an excellent customer experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build positive and professional relationships.
• Ability to adapt, problem‑solve and maintain consistent service levels.
• Motivational leadership skills with experience guiding and empowering others.
• Creative thinking with a focus on continuous improvement in customer service.

Qualifications for the People Advisor Team Leader

• CIPD Level 3 essential

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 each year
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid volunteering day each year to support a chosen charity or organisation
• Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
• A dynamic working environment where your development and wellbeing matter

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 18/03/2026