Job Title: Assistant Project Manager Buildings
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33, - £42, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Help deliver infrastructure that underpins 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 Project Manager Buildings at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Assistant Project Manager Buildings, you’ll support the successful delivery of complex building and infrastructure projects within our Major Infrastructure Projects directorate. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your project management career while working on technically challenging programmes in a highly regulated environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with experienced Project and Package Managers, contributing to the management of building design packages and helping deliver changes across key stages of major projects. Your work will directly support facilities that sustain ship and submarine programmes, making a tangible difference to national defence while building valuable experience and professional capability.
1. Supporting the Package Manager in delivering building design packages to agreed scope, cost and schedule
2. Managing elements of project delivery across RIBA stages 2–5
3. Coordinating design changes and interfacing with internal teams, suppliers and client stakeholders
4. Monitoring progress, risks and documentation within a controlled project environment
5. Contributing to effective governance, reporting and compliance within a regulated site
This role is full time 35, hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager Buildings
6. Experience working within a project environment managing civil and/or mechanical design packages
7. Knowledge of NEC4 contracts, ideally within a client‑side or delivery role
8. Experience working in highly regulated environments, such as nuclear, defence or infrastructure
9. Familiarity with complex document management and technical assurance processes
10. An organised approach with strong stakeholder communication and coordination skills
Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager Buildings
11. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline - Desirable
12. APM Project Fundamentals Qualification, Project Management Qualification or equivalent - Desirable
13. Relevant project or engineering experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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