Assistant Project Manager

Location:Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £42,245 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59730

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 at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of the Disposal Team who are responsible for the safe and secure delivery of all out-of-service submarines at Devonport. You will be working collaboratively with the team and customer to help develop the most cost-effective strategy for the totality of future submarine disposals.

Day-to-day, you’ll be deputising and supporting the Project Managers in the delivery of all aspects of project management as part of the Disposals Team.

• Supporting the Project Manager and the Disposal Business Support Hub (BSH) in the management of governance through engagement with stakeholders across the project.
• Delivering key project management functions in support of the overall project delivery.
• Supporting the development of accurate and up-to-date financial and schedule estimates - this includes developing and agreeing requirements, project scope and solutions for specific outputs.
• Supporting the planning, monitoring and control of work packages.
• Undertaking stakeholder management and communications activities.

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

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Demonstrable evidence of (or potential for) team leadership.
• Demonstrable evidence of stakeholder and communication management.
• Demonstrate evidence of consolidated planning and requirements management.
• Strong communicator both verbally and written.
• Demonstrative involvement in project management including full project lifecycle experience.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager

• Undergraduate Degree in an appropriate engineering or management discipline – Desirable
• Project Management qualifications, such as APM Project Fundamentals Qualification – Desirable.
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation – Desirable.
• Nuclear Plant Foundation Course (NPFC) – Desirable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 Digi Care+
• 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 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: 30/10/2024

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