Assistant Project Manager

Job Title:              Assistant Project Manager
Location:              Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF63258

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 at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be embedded within one of our key programme or project teams and be integral to achieving high-performance delivery to our customers.

Day-to-day, you’ll undertake various functions including scheduling, cost control, risk management and procurement alongside working with stakeholders from across the team, and wider business, to help drive delivery momentum and achieve the project goals. As part of your role in Mission Systems we are looking for someone who can collaborate with a variety of functional teams across multiple discipline areas.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Experience in a project management environment.
• Confident collaborator with experience working in partnership.
• Able to show drive and desire to make a daily positive impact.
• Used to working to tight deadlines, plans, and schedules.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager 

• Project Fundamentals Qualification and/or Project Management Qualification or equivalent (desirable) other formal qualifications acceptable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance but will need to obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance once in post.
 

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 the majority of 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 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 29/05/2025