HR Business Partner – 12 month FTC

Job Title: HR Business Partner – 12 month FTC

Location: Glascoed – but ability to travel to other sites essential

Salary: Circa £57k dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Business Partnering with the Glascoed and Central Manufacturing teams, alongside Business support functions as a when required in collaboration with the wider HR function
• Contribute to the development of the business People Strategy and supporting People Plan, ensuring alignment with business requirements and objectives
• Aligning HR schemes and solutions with the business requirements and objectives and ensuring successful embedding of enterprise and business HR schemes and initiatives
• Ensuring alignment and delivery of HR solutions provided by CoE SME’s, HR Shared Services and 3rd parties
• Coordinating, aligning and leveraging the HR function and resources, within the business, the CoE and HR Shared Services to deliver the business People Plan
• Leading the delivery of complex HR projects in alignment with the People Plan
• Providing advice and coaching to line management and senior leaders on people related business matters aligned to policy, process and legal compliance

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree qualified in HR/Business or similar, with Level 7 CIPD qualification you will be articulate and technology proficient (Microsoft office suite or similar)
• Quantifiable HR experience and within a unionised business is essential
• Experience of understanding business requirements, translating into appropriate HR solutions and delivering within budget/timescales
• Operating HR in an engineering/manufacturing or project based organisation an advantage

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Munitions HR team:

We are a relatively small team of seven based at the Glascoed site, with a few colleagues located across other sites, forming part of a wider group of around 35 people. The role itself is varied and dynamic, offering the perfect opportunity to collaborate closely with senior stakeholders while driving business performance and supporting growth through effective HR practices.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 10th December 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

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