Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Location: Devonport, Plymouth or Bristol
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73999
Shape the future of people strategy in a mission-driven organisation
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Devonport, Plymouth, Devon or Bristol.
The role
As a Senior Human Resources Business Partner, you’ll play a critical role in driving strategic people initiatives that enable performance, transformation and cultural change across our Marine sector. This is an exciting opportunity to lead at scale—partnering with senior leaders, shaping organisational design, and delivering impactful HR solutions that support nationally important defence and engineering programmes.
You’ll be a trusted advisor and influential leader, championing inclusion, innovation, and high performance—while developing your own leadership capability in a complex, purpose-led environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
Leading and developing a team of Human Resources Business Partners, driving performance and capability
Partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver strategic people plans and business transformation initiatives
Delivering complex change programmes aligned to organisational goals
Collaborating with Centres of Expertise and shared services to implement effective HR solutions
Influencing policy, process improvements and cultural initiatives to enhance organisational performance.
This is a full-time role (37 hours per week) based at Devonport or Bristol. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Senior Human Resources Business Partner:
Demonstrating significant experience in a senior HR business partnering role within a complex organisation
Leading and developing high-performing HR teams
Applying expertise across employee relations, industrial relations, organisational development and change management
Influencing and engaging senior stakeholders with strong communication skills
Delivering strategic projects with measurable business outcomes.
Qualifications for the Senior Human Resources Business Partner:
Chartered membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Level 7) or equivalent
Commitment to continuous professional development.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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
[email protected] 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: 03/09/2026
Job Segment: Engineer, Change Management, Engineering, Management
