Job Title: HR Business Partner Transformation Projects
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,000 - £58,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73458
Shape the future of a nationally critical organisation
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 Business Partner Transformation Projects at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a HR Business Partner Transformation Projects, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role is about driving meaningful change at scale - partnering with senior leaders, influencing direction, and delivering people‑led transformation that supports national defence and security.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Leading and delivering HR transformation and change projects aligned to business strategy
- Partnering with senior leaders and managers to build organisational capability and readiness for change
- Designing and implementing people frameworks including career pathways, reward and organisational design
- Managing project plans, milestones and dependencies across multiple workstreams
- Using insight, data and clear communication to influence decisions and support successful change adoption
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Due to the nature of the role, regular on‑site presence is required, with hybrid working arrangements available where business needs allow.
Essential experience of the HR Business Partner Transformation Projects
- Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner with senior leaders
- Strong track record delivering organisational change or transformation projects
- Experience managing complex HR initiatives aligned to strategic objectives
- Solid background in employee relations, including trade union engagement
- Ability to analyse data and provide meaningful insight to inform decisions
Qualifications for the HR Business Partner Transformation Projects
- CIPD qualification or equivalent demonstrable HR experience
- Strong professional knowledge of contemporary HR practice
- Proficiency in HR systems and tools, including Microsoft Office applications
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.
Closing date: 25/05/2026
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