Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

An international engineering firm located in Plymouth is seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to support commercial assurance in a transformative infrastructure project. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a related field and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. This full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive compensation package along with various benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Volunteering paid leave

Professional fees payment

Qualifications

• Experience in construction and working with plant, materials, and expenses - Desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC3 and NEC4 contracts – Desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support commercial assurance through auditing and evidence tracking.
• Manage staff register with timely updates.
• Assist with internal audits of monthly Applications for Payment.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Excel for data entry, analysis, and reporting

Strong communication and organisational skills

Detail-oriented with ability to manage records

Education

Degree level qualification in related field

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF66224

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 Quantity Surveyor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As anAssistant Quantity Surveyor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join us at Devonport, where a major infrastructure investment programme is transforming naval support for future MOD ship and submarine operations. The Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) Business Unit is delivering critical facilities—including docking and berthing for Astute Class submarine maintenance—and we’re recruiting talent to help drive this national mission forward.

Day-to-day, you’ll support commercial assurance through auditing, evidence tracking, and maintaining accurate registers, ensuring timely and reliable data for internal reviews and cost verification.

• Auditing and verification of Defined Cost.
• Collating evidence and updating Evidence Trackers.
• Management of staff register with timely updates and assisting with Plant / Asset Registers.
• Helping with internal audits of monthly Applications for Payment (AFP)
• Auditing monthly expenses.

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

Essential experience of the Assistant Quantity Surveyor

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel for data entry, analysis, and reporting
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Detail-oriented with ability to manage records and support commercial processes
• Experience in construction and working with plant, materials, and expenses - Desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC3 and NEC4 contracts – Desirable.

Qualifications for the Assistant Quantity Surveyor

• Degree level qualification in related field.

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 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 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
• 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 [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: 14/08/2025

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