HR Advisor - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Job Title:                     HR Advisor

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £34,900 - £45,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                        SF71504

Shape People Experiences That Support a Safer World

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 Advisor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a HR Advisor, you’ll deliver professional, pragmatic and people‑focused HR support across a wide range of employee relations and people management activities. This is a varied and rewarding opportunity where your expertise will directly support managers and employees within a complex, regulated and critically important defence environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with HR Business Partners, People Managers and the wider HR team to provide consistent, high‑quality advice that supports business priorities and good employment practice. You’ll play an important role in ensuring policies are applied fairly, risks are managed effectively, and people feel supported throughout their employee journey.

• Managing and delivering an effective HR case management service, ensuring cases are progressed to timely and appropriate conclusions.
• Advising and supporting People Managers on employee relations matters including conduct, capability, attendance and grievance cases.
• Interpreting and applying HR policies, procedures and employment legislation, ensuring consistency and best practice.
• Supporting hearings, appeals and employment tribunal preparation, including documentation collation and guidance.
• Contributing to HR projects, policy development and continuous improvement initiatives across the HR function.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the HR Advisor

• CIPD qualification or actively working towards this.
• Strong working knowledge of employment law, HR policy and employee relations practices.
• Experience managing a range of HR casework with confidence and professionalism.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary HR team and wider business environment.
• Experience of working with trade unions or within an industrial relations setting.

Qualifications for the HR Advisor

• CIPD qualified or working towards CIPD professional status.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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

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: 22/04/2026

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