Job Title: Business Support Administrator
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £26,227.50 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 months
Role ID: SF72915
Keeping vital defence programmes running smoothly, together
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Business Support Administrator at our Walsall site, near Walsall, West Midlands.
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:
- Processing vehicle inwards and decommissioned vehicles, producing despatch notes, logbooks and registering vehicles with the DVLA
- Maintaining accurate records through data entry, invoice preparation and asset management, including IT equipment returns
- Supporting operational teams through meeting room coordination, post handling, pool car bookings, greeting and managing vistors.
- Managing administrative activities such as staff holiday tracking and internal documentation
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders, from shop‑floor teams to senior leadership
This is a full‑time role, working 37.5 hours per week, based on site at our Walsall site, Monday to Friday.
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. 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 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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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.
Application Guidance
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Early applications are encouraged, as we may close the advert ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of strong applicants.
Closing date: 20/04/2026