Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager

Babcock International; Torpoint; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International invites applications for an Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager role at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon. The role sits within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, focusing on safe, compliant asset management across the Devonport estate.

It is a full-time position requiring 35 hours per week. You will support asset surveys, planning, and compliance activities, coordinating with engineering and operations to sustain reliable performance and secure estate

Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
• Understanding of engineering design and safety practices relevant to assets.
• Experience in project specification, planning, project management and estimating.
• Awareness of applicable statutory legislation and compliance requirements.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Considerable working knowledge of the Devonport Royal Dockyard estate.

Responsibilities

• Supporting compliance activities to ensure assets meet statutory and organisational requirements.
• Contributing to asset surveys, condition assessments and asset management decisions.
• Managing asset registration, disposal processes, concessions and deviations.
• Assisting maintenance planning and supporting asset reliability and performance improvements.
• Collaborating with engineering and operational stakeholders to maintain safe and effective estate operations.

Skills

Project planning

PM experience

Engineering design & safety

Stakeholder communication

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent experience

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team responsible for managing and maintaining non-nuclear assets across the entire Devonport site. Following significant investment and growth across the estate, we're expanding the team to support the safe, compliant and effective management of critical infrastructure and engineering assets.

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Supporting compliance activities to ensure assets meet statutory and organisational requirements.
• Contributing to asset surveys, condition assessments and asset management decisions.
• Managing asset registration, disposal processes, concessions and deviations.
• Assisting maintenance planning and supporting asset reliability and performance improvements.
• Collaborating with engineering and operational stakeholders to maintain safe and effective estate operations.

Qualifications

• Degree in an appropriate engineering discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Understanding of engineering design and safety practices relevant to engineering and infrastructure assets.
• Experience in project specification, planning, project management and estimating.
• Awareness of applicable statutory legislation and compliance requirements.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Considerable working knowledge of the Devonport Royal Dockyard estate.

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 ( .

Help shape the future of one of the UK's largest and most complex engineering estates

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon., We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.

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