Location:
Holyhead, GB, LL65 3NY

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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: People Administrator

Location: Holyhead, Anglesey – Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74648

Help shape exceptional employee experiences that support a safe and secure world

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a People Administrator at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.

The role

As a People Administrator, you'll join our Employee Lifecycle Team, a specialist function responsible for delivering accurate, efficient, and customer-focused people services across Babcock. This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within a respected global organisation supporting the defence, aerospace, and engineering sectors.

You'll play a vital role in ensuring employees and managers receive a high-quality service throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle. Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you'll gain valuable exposure to human resources administration, payroll processes, employee relations, compliance, and customer service, developing skills that can support long-term career progression within Babcock.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Assist with employee and manager enquiries, ensuring guidance is aligned with company policies and employment legislation.
Own and deliver employee lifecycle cases across a range of people administration activities.
Ensure processes are completed accurately and in line with legislative and company requirements, including data protection and employment law.
Resolve payroll-related queries by working closely with Payroll and Time and Attendance teams.
Maintain employee benefit schemes, including pensions, private medical cover, and driver checks with external providers.

This role is based at RAF Valley and is 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the People Administrator:
Previous experience working in a busy human resources, people administration, or employee services environment.
Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing workloads.
Experience working independently and collaboratively within a team.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with employees and managers at all levels.
Exposure to payroll administration or payroll-related processes.

Qualifications for the People Administrator:
Essential:
GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics.

Desirable:
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Level 3 qualification.
National Vocational Qualification Level 2 in Business Administration.
Working towards a relevant people, business administration, or human resources qualification.

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: 27/07/2026

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