Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager

Babcock International; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Aviva DigiCare+ health/fitness access

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees covered

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking an Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager for Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, with hybrid working arrangements. You will join the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team to oversee non-nuclear assets across the Devonport estate, ensuring safety, compliance and effective asset performance.

This full-time 35-hour-per-week role requires engineering knowledge, project management experience, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Understanding of engineering design and safety practices relevant to assets.
• Experience in project specification, planning, management and estimating.
• Awareness of statutory legislation and compliance requirements.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Engineering design

Project management

Planning activities

Asset management

Compliance awareness

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 76896

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.

The role

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, you'll be required to:

• 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.

Essential Experience of the Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager

• 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.

Qualifications for the Assistant Non-Nuclear Plant Manager

• Degree in an appropriate engineering discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Security Clearance

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 (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 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

Babcock

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.

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: 10/11/2026

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