Business Support Administrator in Walsall

The role

As a Business Support Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your contribution will help ensure operations run efficiently, data is accurate, and teams have the administrative support they need to deliver highly important outcomes. This role offers excellent exposure to a global engineering organisation and provides strong foundations for long‑term career development within the defence and engineering sector.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Process vehicle inwards and decommissioned vehicles, produce dispatch notes, logbooks and register vehicles with the DVLA.
• Maintain accurate records through data entry, invoice preparation and asset management, including IT equipment returns.
• Support operational teams through meeting room coordination, post handling, pool car bookings, greeting and managing visitors.
• Manage administrative activities such as staff holiday tracking and internal documentation.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, from shop‑floor teams to senior leadership.

Essential experience of the Business Support Administrator:

• Experience working within a fast‑paced administrative or business support function.
• Ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously and prioritise effectively.
• Strong attention to detail with a proactive, “completer‑finisher” approach.
• Intermediate or advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, including formulas and pivot tables.
• Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications for the Business Support Administrator

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 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. 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.

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.
• ‘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.

EEO Statement

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: 20/04/2026