• Job Description

  Req#: 50448

  Job Title: HR Business Partner
  Location: Plymouth or Bristol, UK - Hybrid – Working from home options available
  Compensation: Competitive salary + benefits
  Role Type: Full time / 1-year fixed term contract
  Role ID: SF50448

  At Babcock, we are 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 Plymouth or Bristol sites.

  We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to lead, facilitate and support our business in the implementation of our unified People Plan.

  The role

  As a HR Business Partner, you will have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence at Devonport, Babcock provides through-life support for submarines, surface ships and associated systems and equipment as part of our continuing commitment to support our nation’s naval capability.

  
  As a HR Business Partner working for Babcock, you will have the opportunity to progress your career in a varied and rewarding environment where you will have the opportunity to influence and shape strategies and operations.

  We have a strong equality, diversity and inclusion agenda and are committed to creating a healthy and inclusive workplace for our employees. We have been focusing on improving our culture and have been taking some very deliberate steps in becoming the business we want to be. We are looking for passionate individuals who will join us in championing and role-modelling our company principles.

  Day-to-day, you will provide advice and guidance on Employee Relation and Industrial Relation matters. You will diagnose and create or enable solutions to support the business whilst remaining aligned to the People Plan and provide change management support. A proportion of your role will be in support of the implementation of solutions, ranging from resourcing, reward, development, culture and leadership.

  • Lead and manage the roll out and management of a HR People Plan and initiatives within a business area
  • Sponsor, lead, drive and ensure the delivery of complex business change projects, ensuring alignment with the People Plan, and realisation of the business objectives
  • Develop and propose adaptations of HR activity to meet the specific remit of a business or contract, ensure alignment and delivery of HR solutions provided SMEs, People Centre, and third parties
  • Apply subject matter expertise to the development of policy, process, or approach, reflecting external best practice and ensuring that they add value to the business
  • Consider the deployment of HR processes to meet the requirements of the area supported, to ensure these are fully implemented and deliver the intended benefit to the business or areas supported
  • Support the development of appropriate skills, knowledge and behaviours across the business to enable managers and employees to achieve business objectives in support of our Purpose and Principles.

  Essential experience for the HR Business Partner

  • Depth of knowledge in a range of HR functional areas and deep understanding of the techniques and approaches associated with HR activity
  • The ability to contribute to development of HR policy and processes for the defined area of responsibility
  • You will be accountable for the delivery of large and complex change projects which will require strong project management skills and stakeholder engagement skills
  • You will be a strong communicator who is able to influence others, interact with senior stakeholders and effectively challenge at all levels
  • The role leads HR project work which could include: Organisation Design, Organisation Development, Resource and Talent Planning, Performance and Reward, Employee Engagement, Employee Relations, etc.

  Qualifications for the HR Business Partner

  • Ideally, you will have a level seven or equivalent HR qualification and be a chartered member of the CIPD or have comparable experience
  • You must be able to achieve Security Clearance to be considered for this role.

  Our Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive ten days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of 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

  For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

  Babcock International

  For over one-hundred and thirty-years, Babcock International have 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.
  
  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.
  

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• About the company

  Babcock International Group plc is a British aerospace, defence and nuclear engineering services company based in London, England.

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