Senior HR Business Partner

Faslane Port, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/12/2024

Job Title: Senior HR Business Partner

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60688

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 HR Business Partner at our Clyde site.

The role

If you’re ready to bring your expertise, leadership, and passion for transformation to a role where you can truly make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. At Clyde, we’re on an exciting journey of infrastructure transformation and change. We’re seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to join our forward-thinking HR Operations Team and play a pivotal role in shaping our future.

Day-to-day, reporting directly to the HR Director, the Senior HR Business Partner will be a key player in driving our HR agenda and People Plan. As a trusted advisor and leader, you’ll collaborate across HR Operations, SME HR teams, and the wider leadership team to deliver a range of initiatives, including:

• Supporting ongoing HR operations and transformation activities.
• Leading employee relations and trade union engagement to ensure smooth transitions during workforce and site changes.
• Driving strategic workforce planning and resourcing strategies to support infrastructure transformation.
• Overseeing consultations on workplace location changes, ensuring seamless project governance, and working closely with health and safety, communications, and HR teams.
• Shaping the employee value proposition and collaborating on modernised contracting arrangements.
  
  
  

This role is ideal for a motivated HR leader with aspirations to progress within Clyde, as it offers potential future succession opportunities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience Of The Senior HR Business Partner

• Leadership in Change Management: A proven track record of engaging stakeholders in transformation within industrial and unionised environments.
• Strategic Planning and Project Management: Ability to navigate complex HR challenges with a hands-on approach.
• Expertise in Employee Relations: Experience in union engagement, consultation processes, and employment law.
• Stakeholder Influence: Strong interpersonal skills to guide leaders, teams, and unions effectively.
• Resilience and Adaptability: A forward-thinking mindset to pivot and recover quickly in dynamic situations.
• Commercial Awareness: Experience with bids and conceptual proposals is advantageous.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Senior HR Business Partner

• The post holder would be degree qualified or have equivalent experience
• Recent CPD and a Member or Fellow of the CIPD.
  
  
  

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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: 06/01/2025

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