Job Title: Assistant Package Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £35,900 - £42,300 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74628
Help deliver critical infrastructure that supports the UK’s defence capability
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Package Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As an Assistant Package Manager, you’ll support the delivery of complex construction and infrastructure packages across a major programme environment. Working at the heart of a large-scale defence project, you’ll contribute to every stage of the project lifecycle, from design development through to construction and project close-out.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an excellent opportunity to develop your career in project and engineering management, gaining exposure to large, regulated programmes while working alongside multidisciplinary teams. The role offers meaningful, hands-on experience that directly contributes to national defence capability.
- Supporting the delivery of infrastructure and construction packages across design, procurement and build phases
- Coordinating activities between engineering, commercial and supply chain teams to ensure smooth project execution
- Monitoring project performance, including progress, cost and quality metrics
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to maintain effective communication and alignment
- Contributing to safe, compliant delivery in line with project and regulatory requirements
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Assistant Package Manager
- Experience working within construction or infrastructure project environments
- Understanding of engineering design and construction processes
- Knowledge of reinforced concrete construction and temporary works
- Familiarity with procurement processes and contract administration
- Experience working in regulated or safety-critical environments
Qualifications for the Assistant Package Manager
- Degree, HNC or HND in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
- CSCS card
- Project management qualification (e.g. APM or equivalent) - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 share scheme
- 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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: 19/07/2026
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