HR Business Partner

Overview

Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £50,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67157

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 Human Resources Business Partner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Human Resources Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be a strategic force behind our Marine Programmes business, partnering with senior leaders to deliver people-focused solutions that drive performance, transformation, and cultural change. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our workforce and contribute to projects that protect national security and support global peacekeeping efforts.

Day-to-day, you’ll deliver HR initiatives, drive strategic change projects, implement tailored solutions, build workforce capability, and provide data-driven insights to support business performance.

• Supporting the rollout and management of the People Plan and HR initiatives across your business areas.
• Driving and delivering complex business change projects aligned with strategic objectives.
• Tailoring and implementing HR solutions in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts, the People Centre, and third-party providers.
• Building capability across the business by developing skills, knowledge, and behaviors aligned to our Purpose and Principles.
• Providing data-driven insights to inform people-related decisions and performance.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Human Resources Business Partner

• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge across multiple HR disciplines including Employee Relations, Industrial Relations, change management, and organisational development.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work at a senior level.
• A strategic mindset with strong project management capabilities.
• A passion for inclusion, culture change, and making a difference through people.

Qualifications for the Human Resources Business Partner

• Chartered CIPD membership (Level 7) or equivalent.

• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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: 17/09/2025

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