Assistant Package Manager - Mechanical Services Integration in Devon

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,692 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67705/2

Help Deliver the Infrastructure That Powers National Defence

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 Package Manager - Mechanical Services Integration at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Assistant Package Manager - Mechanical Services Integration, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in supporting the delivery of complex infrastructure projects that enable the Royal Navy’s submarine maintenance operations. You’ll work closely with internal and external stakeholders to manage scope, requirements, programme, risk, and contract elements, ensuring successful project outcomes. Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a team that’s shaping the future of defence engineering, with clear pathways for career progression and professional development.

• Applying configuration and change control to design packages
• Managing planning, monitoring and control of work packages delivered by internal and external teams
• Forecasting costs and monitoring/reporting against budget
• Facilitating, developing, and agreeing requirements, project scope and solutions for design and physical works phases
• Contributing to risk management, including identification, assessment and implementation of mitigations

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Assistant Package Manager - Mechanical Services Integration

• Experience with engineering systems within scope
• Project delivery experience in a Nuclear Licensed Site environment (preferred)
• Technical governance and configuration management through construction and change control
• Management of NEC4 suite of contracts (ECC & PSC options A, C & E)
• Familiarity with CEMAR software and BIM in project delivery (preferred)

Qualifications for the Assistant Package Manager - Mechanical Services Integration

• Minimum HNC/HND (or equivalent) in project management, engineering or business management
• APMQ project management qualification (or equivalent)
• NEC contract management qualification or recognised training (preferred)
• IOSH certification (preferred)

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.

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.
• 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 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 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: 07/04/2026