Project Assistant

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000

Job description

Job Title: Project Assistant
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62805

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.

The role
As a Project Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join the Major Infrastructure Projects Business Unit and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Devonport site. We're driving the development and execution of a Strategic Infrastructure Plan that extends through to 2050, delivering major capital works projects with precision and safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with the project team, driving the delivery of schedules, managing technical scopes, overseeing contractual and financial processes, and addressing risk management functions.

• Provide support to the Package Manager in delivery of project data.
• Assist the technical and project team in requirements gathering, project scope and work to implement solutions for specific work packages.
• Interpret supply chain reporting into usable data to inform planning, monitoring, and control of work packages.
• Assist with the inputs to cost and budget monitoring.
• Assist with the stakeholder management and communications plans.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Project Assistant

• Proven experience working within a project environment or a similar setting.
• Familiarity with project delivery in regulatory environments.
• Knowledge of configuration management systems or comparable tools - Desirable.
• Experience with contract management software - Desirable.

Qualifications for the Project Assistant

• Committed to pursuing, actively working towards, or having already achieved a project management qualification (or equivalent).
• Achieved A Level or higher qualification in a relevant and transferrable discipline.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 31/03/2025