Assistant Project Manager

Job Title:              Assistant Project Manager
Location:              Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                 SF68615

Help Deliver a Once-in-a-Generation Submarine Programme

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Project Manager at Ashton House, in Bristol.

The role
As a Assistant Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your impact will be felt across our integrated project teams and the wider UK defence ecosystem, while you build project leadership skills that accelerate your career.

Day-to-day, you’ll help orchestrate complex, high impact defence engineering projects, balancing time, cost, quality and risk to keep delivery on track.  

• Plan and control schedules, costs and scope to meet programme milestones. 
• Manage risks, issues and opportunities, driving proactive mitigation. 
• Coordinate procurement and supplier activities to support delivery momentum. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Mission Systems and partner teams to align on objectives. 
• Report progress clearly and consistently, enabling informed decisions. 

This role is full time, 37 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 Project Manager

• Experience working in a project management environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills. 
• Confident collaborator with a track record of partnership working. 
• Comfortable with tight deadlines, plans and schedules. 
• Adaptable and curious, with drive to make a positive impact every day.

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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 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: 12/12/2025

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