Job Title: Rostering Administrator
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Compensation: £30,245.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73214
Supporting safe, efficient rail operations through effective resource planning
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Rostering Administrator based at Cadder Yard, Scotland supporting our Rail business.
This is a key coordination role that helps ensure the right people, with the right skills, are available at the right time. Your work will directly support safe, compliant, and cost‑effective delivery of rail operations.
The role
As a Rostering Administrator, you’ll support the planning and coordination of staff resources and training to meet operational demands. Working closely with depot managers, supervisors, and external suppliers, you’ll help minimise resourcing gaps and ensure work is delivered efficiently.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Creating, updating, and maintaining staff rosters to meet planned work requirements
- Working with depot and management teams to understand staffing needs and operational priorities
- Scheduling training and competence activities, ensuring staff are released appropriately
- Liaising with agency suppliers to cover any shortfalls in resourcing
- Maintaining accurate records of staff skills, competencies, suppliers, and workforce data.
This is a full‑time, onsite role, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Cadder Yard, Scotland.
Essential experience of the Rostering Administrator:
- Experience in an administrative or coordination role within a busy, structured environment
- Experience producing or supporting rosters, schedules, or resource plans
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- High attention to detail and confidence working with data and records.
Qualifications for the Rostering Administrator:
Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent), including English and Maths.
Security Clearance
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.
Application Guidance
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Early applications are encouraged, as we may close the advert ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of strong applicants.
Closing date: 15/05/2026
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