Job Title: HR Advisor
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £34,900.00 - £41,100.00 DOE + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 52 Week Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF67638
Champion People. Drive Performance. Make a Difference.
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a HR Advisor at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The role
As a HR Advisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be a trusted partner to our operational teams, delivering expert guidance on employee relations and supporting line managers to drive performance and engagement. This is a dynamic opportunity to make a real impact—enhancing employee experience, resolving ER issues and embedding HR initiatives that shape the future of our workforce.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Advising line managers and employees on HR and ER matters such as absence, performance and investigations
- Delivering HR projects including consultations, engagement activities and training
- Supporting policy implementation and change management initiatives
- Collaborating with the HR Business Partnering team on ad hoc tasks
- Acting as a role model for Babcock’s values and principles
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home.
Essential experience of the HR Advisor:
- Providing Employee Relations advice and employment law guidance
- Interpreting and implementing corporate policies
- Working in a fast-paced, multi-site environment
- Leading local change management initiatives
- Navigating unionised environments with confidence
Qualifications for the HR Advisor:
- 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 Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) 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: 18/09/2025