Babcock International Group

Senior Employee Relations Specialist

Babcock International Group

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Dunfermline • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £45,284 - £52,872 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Taking the lead in managing complex employee relations cases and settlement negotiations
  • Coaching and supporting the ER team
  • Influencing business best practices, developing policies and processes
  • Building strong stakeholder relationships
  • Helping to shape a positive, fair, and legally compliant workplace
  • Acting as the first point of contact for all ER-related matters
  • Providing governance and guidance for change programmes, including TUPE and restructuring
  • Advising and coaching managers on employment law and policy to ensure fair and consistent decisions
  • Building partnerships with business leaders and HR teams to sustain positive employee relations
  • Keeping up to date with employment law, legislation, and best practice.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as an Employee Relations expert within a complex global organisation
  • Strong understanding of ER, employment law, and relevant legislation
  • Experience operating in a unionised environment
  • Commercially and data-driven approach with innovative problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with confidence and proactivity.
  • CIPD Level 5 or equivalent (preferred)
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law
  • The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
employee relationsemployment lawsettlement negotiationsTUPErestructuringpolicy developmentdata-driven decision makingproblem-solving
Soft skills
coachinginfluencingstakeholder relationship buildingautonomycollaborationproactivity
Certifications
CIPD Level 5Security Check (SC) clearance