HR Advisor

Babcock International; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Digital GP

Employee discounts

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a HR Advisor to support managers and employees across our Rail business from Hamilton Office and Cadder Yard near Glasgow. The role is a six-month fixed-term contract, full-time with hybrid working and travel to other sites as needed.

You will provide expert guidance on employee relations, HR policies, and change initiatives, coach managers, and produce HR analytics to support business decisions while ensuring compliance and an inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Human Resources Advisor or Employee Relations role.
• Experience managing employee relations cases from start to finish.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience supporting investigations and formal HR processes.
• Experience using HR systems and analysing people data to produce reports and insights.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and guidance on employee relations matters, HR policies, and employment legislation.
• Manage employee relations cases including disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance, and flexible working matters.
• Support organisational change programmes, including consultations, restructures, redundancies, and TUPE activities.
• Coaching and developing managers to build capability and confidence in people management practices.
• Producing HR reports and analysing people data to identify trends and support business decision-making.

Skills

Employee relations

Policy guidance

People data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

HRIS systems

Job description

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Location:

Glasgow, GB, G72 0LH Glasgow, GB, G64 1FS

Job Title: HR Advisor

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 6 months

Role ID: SF77001

Help shape a positive employee experience across a vital UK infrastructure business.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HR Advisor at our Hamilton Office and Cadder Yard, near Glasgow, Lanarkshire.

The role

As a HR Advisor, you'll play a key role in supporting managers and employees across our Rail business. This is an exciting opportunity to influence workplace culture, strengthen employee engagement, and help leaders navigate people challenges with confidence. You'll provide expert guidance on employee relations, organisational change, and people management, ensuring best practice and compliance while contributing to a high-performing and inclusive environment.

Day-to-day you'll be:

• Providing expert advice and guidance on employee relations matters, HR policies, and employment legislation.
• Managing employee relations cases including disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance, and flexible working matters.
• Supporting organisational change programmes, including consultations, restructures, redundancies, and TUPE activities.
• Coaching and developing managers to build capability and confidence in people management practices.
• Producing HR reports and analysing people data to identify trends and support business decision-

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

The role is based across Hamilton Office and Cadder Yard, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to Belfast and other business locations will be required as needed. This is a six-month fixed-term contract.

Essential experience of the HR Advisor:

• Proven experience in a Human Resources Advisor or Employee Relations role.
• Experience managing employee relations cases from start to finish.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience supporting investigations and formal HR processes.
• Experience using HR systems and analysing people data to produce reports and insights.

Qualifications for the HR Advisor:

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of UK employment legislation and employee relations practices.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to interpret and apply HR policies and procedures consistently.
• Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Security Clearance

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

• 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.