Assistant Project Manager Construction

weServed; Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Assistant Project Manager Construction for our Rosyth site. You’ll support delivery of construction, infrastructure and engineering projects, ensuring safety, quality and efficiency across the program.

You’ll work with managers, contractors and stakeholders to accelerate professional growth within the UK’s leading engineering organisation. Daily duties include planning, coordinating contractor activities, cost monitoring, and maintaining project documentation, with emphasis

Qualifications

• Experience delivering construction, infrastructure or facilities projects.
• Experience working in site-based environments coordinating contractor activities.
• Understanding of project management principles: planning, cost control, reporting and risk management.
• Working knowledge of health and safety requirements, including CDM 2015 or similar frameworks.
• Background in an engineering, construction or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Supporting project planning, scheduling and progress tracking across multiple construction activities.
• Coordinating contractors and site activities, including inspections, permits and work within live operational environments.
• Monitoring project costs, budgets, contractor payments and key project documentation.
• Assisting with health and safety activities, including toolbox talks, RAMS reviews and CDM compliance.
• Managing project reporting, risk and change registers, while supporting stakeholder engagement and issue resolution.

Skills

Site coordination

Project planning

Budget tracking

Health and safety

Stakeholder engagement

Education

HNC / HND in Engineering or Construction

Degree in Construction or Engineering (desirable)

PM qualification (desirable)

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager Construction

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 Construction at our Rosyth site.

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74567

Help Deliver Infrastructure Projects That Support National Security

The role

As an Assistant Project Manager Construction, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll support the successful delivery of construction, infrastructure and engineering projects, ensuring they are completed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards of quality. You'll work closely with project managers, contractors and stakeholders, developing valuable experience that will accelerate your professional growth and open future career opportunities within one of the UK's leading engineering organisations.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Supporting project planning, scheduling and progress tracking across multiple construction activities.
• Coordinating contractors and site activities, including inspections, permits and work within live operational environments.
• Monitoring project costs, budgets, contractor payments and key project documentation.
• Assisting with health and safety activities, including toolbox talks, RAMS reviews and CDM compliance.
• Managing project reporting, risk and change registers, while supporting stakeholder engagement and issue resolution.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager Construction

• Experience supporting the delivery of construction, infrastructure or facilities projects.
• Experience working in site-based environments and coordinating contractor activities.
• Understanding of project management principles, including planning, cost control, reporting and risk management.
• Working knowledge of health and safety requirements, including CDM 2015 or similar regulated frameworks.
• Background in an engineering, construction or related technical discipline.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager Construction

• HNC or HND in Engineering, Construction or a related discipline.
• Degree in Construction, Engineering or a related subject is desirable
• Working towards an Association for Project Management or equivalent project management qualification is desirable
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent health and safety certification is desirable
• Relevant industry experience in construction or infrastructure projects is desirable

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 26,000 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: 24/08/2026