HR Business Partner

Job Title:                     HR Business Partner

Location:                     Walsall, West Midlands + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £46,000.00 - £53,000.00 DOE plus £4,500.00 Car Allowance + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF67768

Lead People Strategy at the Heart of Defence and Engineering Excellence

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 Walsall site, West Midlands.

The role

As an HR Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be a key driver of strategic and operational people solutions, directly influencing business performance and employee experience. This is a dynamic opportunity to lead HR initiatives in a fast-paced, unionised production environment, where your expertise will shape workforce development, support bid strategies and foster collaborative relationships across all levels of the organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Leading HR operations and project delivery at the West Midlands Production Facility
• Advising senior stakeholders and managers on complex employee relations and organisational challenges
• Supporting and guiding the on-site HR Advisor to ensure consistent HR service delivery
• Building strong, constructive relationships with trade union representatives
• Balancing strategic initiatives with hands-on problem solving and agile decision-making

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three to four days on-site and up to two days from home.

Essential experience of the HR Business Partner:

• Leading HR strategy across diverse, complex organisations
• Driving change and challenging the status quo within a business setting
• Delivering successful employee and industrial relations outcomes
• Managing HR processes including reorganisation, redundancy, TUPE, bid support and mobilisation
• Operating in fast-paced, multi-site environments with strong commercial acumen

Qualifications for the HR Business Partner:

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Check (SC) / NPPV2 (Met Police Clearance) 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit.
• ‘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: 23/09/2025