HR Business Partner

Babcock International; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm in Walsall seeks an HR Business Partner to drive strategic HR initiatives and enhance employee experience. Responsibilities include leading HR operations, advising senior management, and building productive relationships with trade unions. The ideal candidate has strong HR experience in complex environments and can achieve necessary security clearance. This full-time role offers hybrid work options and an excellent benefits package.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Essential experience as an HR Business Partner in complex organisations.
• Proven track record in delivering successful industrial relations outcomes.
• Ability to achieve security clearance for the role.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR operations and deliver projects at the West Midlands Production Facility.
• Advise stakeholders on complex employee relations challenges.
• Support the HR Advisor for consistent service delivery.

Skills

HR strategy leadership

Change management

Employee relations

Commercial acumen

Job description

Overview

As an HR Business Partner, you'll be a key driver of strategic and operational people solutions, directly influencing business performance and employee experience. This is a dynamic opportunity to lead HR initiatives in a fast-paced, unionised production environment, where your expertise will shape workforce development, support bid strategies and foster collaborative relationships across all levels of the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Leading HR operations and project delivery at the West Midlands Production Facility
• Advising senior stakeholders and managers on complex employee relations and organisational challenges
• Supporting and guiding the on-site HR Advisor to ensure consistent HR service delivery
• Building strong, constructive relationships with trade union representatives
• Balancing strategic initiatives with hands-on problem solving and agile decision-making

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three to four days on-site and up to two days from home.

• Essential experience of the HR Business Partner:
• Leading HR strategy across diverse, complex organisations
• Driving change and challenging the status quo within a business setting
• Delivering successful employee and industrial relations outcomes
• Managing HR processes including reorganisation, redundancy, TUPE, bid support and mobilisation
• Operating in fast-paced, multi-site environments with strong commercial acumen

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Check (SC) / NPPV2 (Met Police Clearance) security clearance for this role.

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 at our Walsall site, West Midlands. 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)

Benefits

• 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 entitlement, with an annual window to request this benefit
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year for volunteering
• 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.