Job Title: Handover Coordinator
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Starting from £25,431 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74690
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 Handover Coordinator at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Handover Coordinator, you’ll join our Major Infrastructure Projects team supporting the delivery of significant dock, berth and building infrastructure programmes that enable ship and submarine sustainment. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career within a complex and highly regulated environment, gaining exposure to major defence infrastructure projects while helping ensure assets, facilities and systems are handed over safely, efficiently and in a fully auditable manner.
Day-to-day, you’ll play an important role in coordinating handover activities, supporting commissioning teams and maintaining the quality and integrity of project documentation throughout the project lifecycle. Your work will directly contribute to the successful delivery of infrastructure that supports UK defence capability.
- Coordinating the project handover process to ensure all activities are completed in a controlled and auditable manner.
- Supporting the handover of buildings, systems and assets to end users, including the preparation of handover documentation and certificates.
- Producing and maintaining handover files, reservation lists, reports and lifetime records throughout the project lifecycle.
- Arranging and facilitating commissioning and handover meetings, including recording actions and outcomes when required.
- Managing commissioning and handover documentation to ensure information is controlled, appropriately classified and stored within relevant document management systems.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Handover Coordinator
- Proven experience in a handover coordination or document control function.
- Experience working within an ISO 9001 accredited or equivalent quality management system.
- Several years of experience in a similar role within construction, infrastructure or a related industry.
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders through both written and verbal communication.
Qualifications for the Handover Coordinator
- NVQ or City & Guilds qualification within the Engineering or Construction industry.
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: 15/07/2026
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