Administrator

weServed; Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists in armed forces leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Administrator at Rosyth, Fife, to support operational teams delivering critical defence programmes. You will manage departmental databases, generate management information, and ensure data accuracy while collaborating across levels of the business.

The role offers a 36-hour week, hybrid work, and a 12-month fixed-term contract. Applicants should have strong attention to detail, excellent communication, and experience with Microsoft Office and databases.

Qualifications

• Recent experience in administration or data management role.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience working with databases and data management systems.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage and maintain accurate information.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Updating and maintaining departmental databases, including engineering and operational records.
• Producing reports, metrics, spreadsheets, and management information using Microsoft Office applications.
• Standardising and cleansing data to ensure records remain accurate and compliant.
• Supporting booking, reconciliation, ticket raising, and administrative processes across the department.
• Collaborating with operational teams and stakeholders to provide responsive administrative support.

Skills

Administration experience

Data management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Databases

Job description

Job Title: Administrator

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF75451

Help keep critical defence programmes running smoothly behind the scenes.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Administrator at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As an Administrator, you’ll play a key role in supporting operational teams that deliver vital engineering and defence programmes. Working within our Marine business, you'll help maintain the accuracy of essential business systems, records, and reporting that enable teams to operate efficiently and safely. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your administration, data management, and stakeholder engagement skills while contributing to work that supports the UK’s defence capability.

This position offers the chance to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment where attention to detail, organisation, and initiative are highly valued. You'll work closely with colleagues across different levels of the business, helping to deliver high-quality administrative support and reliable management information.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Updating and maintaining departmental databases, including engineering and operational records.
• Producing reports, metrics, spreadsheets, and management information using Microsoft Office applications.
• Standardising and cleansing data to ensure records remain accurate and compliant.
• Supporting booking, reconciliation, ticket raising, and administrative processes across the department.
• Collaborating with operational teams and stakeholders to provide responsive administrative support.

This is a full‑time, 12‑month fixed‑term contract based at Rosyth. Hours are 36 per week, Monday to Thursday with a half day on Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of three days onsite each week.

Essential experience of the Administrator:

• Recent experience in an administration, office support, data management, or business support role.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Word.
• Experience working with databases, record management systems, or business systems.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage and maintain accurate information.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications for the Administrator:

• Recent and relevant experience in a similar administrative role.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience working with databases and data management systems.

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 29,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 09/09/2026

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