Job Title: Senior Solicitor
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68817
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 Senior Solicitor at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Senior Solicitor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a dynamic and varied role where your expertise will help shape strategic decisions and ensure legal compliance across high-impact projects in defence and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a collaborative legal team within the wider Babcock Group, working on complex contracts and agreements that span local and international operations. Your contribution will directly influence our ability to deliver safe, secure, and innovative solutions to our customers and partners.
- Providing legal advice on commercial contracts including MOUs, joint ventures, collaboration and confidentiality agreements
- Supporting procurement and commercial teams during negotiations and meetings
- Advising on intellectual property, competition law, and data protection
- Managing external legal counsel and supporting dispute resolution
- Delivering legal training and maintaining document registers and retention systems
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Solicitor
- Post-qualification experience as a solicitor, ideally with a blend of in-house and law firm background
- Proven ability to advise on complex commercial and contractual matters
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders
- Comfortable handling confidential and legally privileged information
- Strong communication and organisational skills
Qualifications for the Senior Solicitor
- Qualified solicitor with relevant practising certification
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 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: 12/11/2025
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