Job Title: Personal Assistant to the Directors
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73102
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 Personal Assistant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Personal Assistant, you’ll be a key member of the Executive Suite team, providing high‑quality, trusted support to senior leaders on the Devonport Royal Dockyard Limited site. This is far more than a traditional administrative role.
You’ll work in a fast paced, confidential environment, helping Directors operate effectively and enabling sound decision making at the highest level.
Day-to-day, you’ll manage complex priorities, build strong relationships across the business, and act as a professional interface with internal and external stakeholders. It’s a challenging, rewarding opportunity that will sharpen your organisational, communication and leadership skills, while opening doors to long‑term career development within a global engineering organisation.
- Managing diaries and inboxes, ensuring Directors’ time is planned effectively
- Organising travel and expenses, including UK and international arrangements
- Supporting meetings and events, coordinating conferences, away days and VIP visits
- Preparing documentation, presentations, reports and briefing packs, including minute‑taking
- Liaising confidently with senior stakeholders across the business and externally
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Director Personal Assistant
- Proven experience providing senior‑level PA or executive administrative support
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Experience of complex diary management and stakeholder coordination
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
Qualifications for the Director Personal Assistant
- GCSE English, Maths at Grade C (4/5) or Above – Certificates must be submitted as part of the application.
- NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration, or equivalent qualification (preferred)
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
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: 30/04/2026
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