Solicitor

Babcock International; Stoke Gifford; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and defense firm is hiring a Senior Solicitor to provide legal advice on complex commercial contracts and ensure compliance across strategic projects. This full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires a qualified solicitor with significant post-qualification experience. Candidates must be comfortable handling confidential information and managing external counsel. Comprehensive benefits are provided, including generous holiday and pension contributions.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteering leave

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience as a solicitor, ideally 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.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice on commercial contracts including MOUs, joint ventures, and confidentiality agreements.
• Advising on intellectual property, competition law, and data protection.
• Managing external legal counsel and supporting dispute resolution.
• Delivering legal training and maintaining document registers.

Skills

Legal advice on commercial contracts

Advising on intellectual property

Managing external legal counsel

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

Education

Qualified solicitor with relevant practising certification

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice on commercial contracts including MOUs, joint ventures, collaboration and confidentiality agreements
• 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.

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience as a solicitor, ideally with a blend of in-house and law firm backgroundli>
• 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, 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.

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.

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.