Senior Solicitor

Job Title:                     Senior Solicitor

Location:                     Flexible

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF74059

Lead high-impact legal decisions on critical national programmes

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 Solicitor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Solicitor, you’ll act as a trusted legal advisor at the heart of major nuclear and defence programmes. You’ll provide expert legal support on complex, high-value contracts and strategic projects, ensuring that legal risk is effectively managed while enabling commercial success.

Day-to-day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to influence critical infrastructure projects that support national defence and long-term security. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, shape key decisions and contribute to the development of the wider legal function, enhancing both your leadership and technical expertise.

• Providing expert legal advice on complex commercial contracts and strategic projects


• Leading contract negotiations to ensure commercially sound and compliant outcomes


• Managing disputes, litigation and regulatory compliance activities


• Collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, risk-based solutions


• Supporting governance processes and ensuring adherence to legal frameworks

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with occasional travel to Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Senior Solicitor

• Demonstrable experience in commercial contract drafting, negotiation and review


• Proven ability to deliver strategic, risk-based legal advice to senior stakeholders


• Experience managing disputes, litigation and regulatory compliance


• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate legal complexity into business context


• Experience working within an in-house or corporate legal environment


• NEC contract experience

Qualifications for the Senior Solicitor

• Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales with significant post-qualification experience

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 [email protected] 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: 05/07/2026

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