PeopleCentre Administrator in Holyhead

As a People Administrator, you'll join our Employee Lifecycle Team, a specialist function responsible for delivering accurate, efficient, and customer-focused people services across Babcock. This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within a respected global organisation supporting the defence, aerospace, and engineering sectors. You'll play a vital role in ensuring employees and managers receive a high-quality service throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle.

Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you'll gain valuable exposure to human resources administration, payroll processes, employee relations, compliance, and customer service, developing skills that can support long‑term career progression within Babcock.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Assist with employee and manager enquiries, ensuring guidance is aligned with company policies and employment legislation.
• Own and deliver employee lifecycle cases across a range of people administration activities.
• Ensure processes are completed accurately and in line with legislative and company requirements, including data protection and employment law.
• Resolve payroll‑related queries by working closely with Payroll and Time and Attendance teams.
• Maintain employee benefit schemes, including pensions, private medical cover, and driver checks with external providers.

This role is based at RAF Valley and is 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience

• Previous experience working in a busy human resources, people administration, or employee services environment.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing workloads.
• Experience working independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with employees and managers at all levels.
• Exposure to payroll administration or payroll‑related processes.

Qualifications

• GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics.
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Level 3 qualification.
• National Vocational Qualification Level 2 in Business Administration.
• Working towards a relevant people, business administration, or human resources qualification.

Security clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

• 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‑day special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) for volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

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 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.