Job Title: Project Assistant
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £39,607 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72425
Be at the heart of delivering major infrastructure that powers national defence
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 Project Assistant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Project Assistant, you’ll play a vital role supporting the successful delivery of high‑value programmes that enhance the UK’s defence and engineering capability.
Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a team responsible for upgrading essential dockyard infrastructure, work that underpins the Royal Navy’s ability to operate safely and effectively. This is a role with purpose, variety and real‑world impact, offering you the opportunity to develop your career across project delivery, stakeholder engagement and wider defence engineering disciplines.
- Support the delivery of project management documentation, including risk, scope, schedule, quality and continuous improvement activity.
- Produce and present clear project information to support analysis and performance reporting.
- Maintain strong communication across the project team and wider stakeholders.
- Promote our company values and contribute positively to team culture.
- Carry out additional duties as required to meet project and customer needs.
This role is full time, 35, hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Project Assistant
- Awareness of project management techniques and activities.
- Strong IT literacy, including experience using Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to capture and communicate project information clearly.
- Understanding of sensitive information handling.
- Experience in an engineering or technical environment - Desirable
Qualifications for the Project Assistant
- Minimum ONC in an engineering discipline, or a business qualification (Diploma in Management minimum), or relevant demonstrable experience - Essential
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent project management training - Desirable
- Experience within engineering or a technical industry - Desirable
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: 31/03/2026
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