Job Title: Employee Relations Specialist
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £39,237 - £46,064
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72822
Shape Fair Workplaces. Support People. Make a National Impact.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together.
If you join us, you can play your part as an Employee Relations Specialist at Rosyth Dockyard, near Dunfermline, Fife.
We operate at the heart of defence, aerospace and engineering — industries that protect communities, support national security and build infrastructure for the future. Behind every complex programme is a workforce that feels supported, heard and treated fairly. That’s where you come in.
As an Employee Relations Specialist, you’ll play a critical role in shaping positive and effective people practices across our Marine business. This is more than a case‑handling role — it’s about influencing managers, strengthening workplace relationships and supporting fair, legally compliant decision‑making in a highly unionised environment.
You’ll be trusted to provide commercially focused, pragmatic advice across a wide range of employee relations matters, helping leaders navigate change with confidence while supporting employees to thrive. In doing so, you’ll directly contribute to an engaged workforce delivering programmes that matter — and you’ll continue to build your own expertise and credibility in a complex, fast‑moving organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Acting as the first point of contact for all employee relations queries, providing trusted, high‑quality advice
- Advising and coaching managers on employment law, policy and best practice to support fair, consistent outcomes
- Managing a broad range of employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance and flexible working matters
- Building strong relationships across HR and the wider business, escalating complex issues when required
- Keeping knowledge current by staying up to date with employment law, legislation and evolving best practice.
This is a full‑time role working 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday (with a half‑day on Friday), based at Rosyth Dockyard. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Employee Relations Specialist:
- Strong, up‑to‑date knowledge of employee relations and UK employment law
- Hands‑on experience working in a unionised environment
- A confident, proactive and approachable style, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively
- A commercially minded, data‑driven approach to problem solving
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Qualifications for the Employee Relations Specialist:
- CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) is desirable
- CIPD Level 7 (or working towards) would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
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.
Closing date: 29/04/2026
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