Job Title: Project Support Assistant
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Support Assistant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Project Support Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join the Transformation Function at HMNB Devonport, where you'll gain broad exposure across submarines, infrastructure, and city-centre operations. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to be deployed across diverse environments, contributing to strategic change and operational improvement at the heart of naval engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll Support the development and validation of Benefit, Risk, and Learning from Experience (LfE) data across the Portfolio, ensuring data integrity through single version of truth principles, enforcing governance standards, and maintaining up-to-date sources from project stakeholders.
1. Delivers timely, high-quality functional reporting aligned with brand standards
2. Upholds reporting governance and ensures stakeholder data sources remain current
3. Visualises data effectively to communicate compelling, goal-driven insights with high impact
4. Supports Project Leads in accurately maintaining RiskHive, Benefit Profiles, and LfE tools
5. Verifies programme data integrity, ensuring a clear and auditable trail
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Project Support Assistant
6. Proficient in MS Excel, Visio, Project, and Power BI
7. Produces high-quality, branded Management Information tailored to diverse audiences
8. Familiar with project management frameworks, controls, and lifecycle phases
9. Strong written, verbal, and face-to-face communication; Project Controls or IT/data-management experience advantageous
10. Experience or understanding of working within a Project Management/Project Controls environment
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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.
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
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.