HR Business Partner Industrial Relations

Job Title: HR Business Partner Industrial Relations

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,000 - £58,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73455

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 Industrial Relations at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a HR Business Partner - Industrial Relations, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll step into a specialist, high-impact position within a unionised, complex engineering environment. This is not a generalist HR position - it’s a standalone Industrial Relations specialist role where your insight, judgement and influence will shape relationships, stability and long-term success across the site. While the role carries clear ownership and autonomy, you won’t be working in isolation. You’ll collaborate closely with a highly capable and supportive HR team on site and across Babcock, giving you the opportunity to share expertise, build strong professional connections, and contribute to our wider people strategy

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Build and maintain trusted, credible relationships with Trade Union colleagues
• Review and improve Industrial Relations frameworks, policies and agreements
• Support complex negotiations, consultations and dispute resolution activity
• Act as a trusted advisor to Line Managers, Leaders and HR colleagues on Industrial Relations matters
• Identify risks and opportunities, providing proactive, data-driven solutions

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Due to the nature of the role, regular on-site presence is required, with hybrid working arrangements available where business needs allow.

Essential experience of the HR Business Partner Industrial Relations

• Significant experience in Industrial Relations within unionised environments
• Proven capability in Trade Union engagement, negotiation and collective bargaining
• Experience resolving disputes and managing conflict effectively
• Background in heavy industrial, engineering, manufacturing, defence or similar sectors
• Experience operating autonomously as a specialist advisor in complex organisations

Qualifications for the HR Business Partner Industrial Relations

• CIPD qualification or equivalent professional experience
• Strong working knowledge of employment law
• Demonstrable expertise in Industrial Relations strategy, best practice and Trade Union engagement models

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 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 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 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: 22/05/2026

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