Administrator, Office Administrator​/ Coordinator, Administrative​/Clerical

Administrator

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Vacancies: Multiple opportunities available

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Job Title: Administrator

The role
As an Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your contribution will help ensure smooth operations across restricted areas and high-profile projects, giving you the chance to develop your skills and grow your career in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide essential support to senior managers and project teams working on some of the UK’s most important defence programmes. This is a varied and dynamic role where no two days are the same—from managing diaries and coordinating meetings to supporting events and maintaining project documentation.

• Providing administrative and secretarial support to multiple teams
• Managing diaries, arranging travel, and coordinating meetings
• Organising away days, conferences, and events onsite and offsite
• Maintaining SharePoint sites and ensuring consistency across projects
• Preparing reports, collating data, and producing presentation packs

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based onsite four days a week in Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Site Hours 7.30 – 15.30 Monday to Thursday and 7.30 – 12.30 Friday with some flexibility.

Essential experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational and time management abilities
• Effective decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities

Qualifications

• GCSE in English and Maths (Grade C/4 or above) or NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration - Essential

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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

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 car 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.

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