Job Title: Employee Relations Specialist
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39,237 - £46,064 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66405
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Employee Relations Specialist at our Rosyth site.
The role
As an Employee Relations Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be the first point of contact for all employee relations queries, operating within a dynamic, agile and changing workplace within a very supportive and driven team.
Day-to-day, you'll provide commercially focused, pragmatic HR advice across a broad range of areas including absence management, flexible working, disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management, employee wellbeing, and more within a highly unionised environment. Additionally, you will:
- Act as the primary point of contact for all employee relations (ER) matters, providing timely and effective support across a range of issues.
- Deliver expert guidance and coaching on employment law and HR policies, including performance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, equal opportunities, and absence management, enabling managers to lead with confidence and consistency.
- Foster strong relationships with the wider HR team, ensuring open communication and escalating significant concerns within business areas as appropriate.
- Maintain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of employment legislation, case law, and best practices, ensuring advice is accurate, compliant, and aligned with organisational standards.
- Identify and escalate complex ER cases, ensuring they are managed appropriately and in line with legal and organisational frameworks.
This role is full time, 36 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 Employee Relations Specialist
- Demonstrate a strong and up-to-date understanding of employee relations, employment law, and relevant legislation, with a clear appreciation for the importance of continuous learning in this area.
- Bring hands-on experience working within a unionised environment, with proven capability in managing ER cases across their full lifecycle.
- Apply a commercially minded and data-driven approach to ER, offering pragmatic, innovative solutions and proactive guidance, both independently and collaboratively.
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills, with particular strength in written communication to ensure clarity, professionalism, and impact.
- Confidently navigate and apply company policies and procedures, especially HR policies and employment contracts, ensuring their practical and consistent implementation.
Qualifications for the Employee Relations Specialist
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 Standard (BPSS) / 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: 05/09/2025