Senior Employee Relations Specialist - Plymouth, United Kingdom - Babcock International

Babcock International
Babcock International
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Plymouth, United Kingdom

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Senior Employee Relations Specialist:


  • Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
  • Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title:
Senior Employee Relations Specialist

Location:
Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:
£45, Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / 52 week Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:
SF56091


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 Employee Relations Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.


The role
As a Senior Employee Relations Specialist, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary.

You will take a lead role in managing complex employee relations cases and settlement negotiations, as well as coaching the team operating within a dynamic, agile and changing workplace within a very supportive and driven team.


Day to day, you'll be tasked with providing commercially focused and pragmatic advice across varying disciplines, such as: absence management, flexible working, disciplinaries, grievances, performance management, employee welfare and much more in a highly unionised environment.


  • Provide central governance and guidance for change programmes and consultation programmes such as TUPE and restructuring ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to.
  • Provide advisory guidance and coaching on Employment Law policy to enable managers to deliver good people management practices, ensuring consistent and fair decisions and legally compliant processes
  • Develop and maintain a good working knowledge of relevant employment law, legislation and best practice in order to carry out the role to the highest level.
  • Lead on complex or high risk cases
  • Develop management capability on handling and dealing with employee relations activity through coaching and advice


This role is full time - 36 hours and will be based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard with hybrid working from home arrangements.


Essential experience of the Senior Employee Relations Specialist:

  • Have prior experience of working autonomously as the Employee Relations expert within a complex global organisation
  • Have an excellent understanding and knowledge of Employee Relations, employment law and relevant legislation, with an awareness of the importance of keeping up to date.
  • Have current working experience of operating in a unionised environment
  • Be commercially and data driven, with a pragmatic and innovative approach to ER whilst delivering proactive direction and solutions, independently and collectively

Qualifications for the Senior Employee Relations Specialist:

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.


Our Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most 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


Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.


Closing date: 05/03/2024
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