Assistant Project Manager

Job Title:                      Assistant Project Manager

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife

Compensation:            £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF70634

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 Rosyth site.

The role

As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll support the successful delivery of specialist manufacturing and engineering programmes within our Marine business at Rosyth. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a range of low‑to‑medium complexity projects and work packages that contribute to critical defence and civil nuclear programmes.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Supporting the delivery of key project management activities across assigned projects and work packages
• Producing accurate project reporting, including schedule, cost and performance data
• Planning, monitoring and controlling project work packages to ensure delivery to time, cost and quality
• Contributing to the development of financial and schedule estimates
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to support effective communication and collaboration

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Friday and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Experience across the full project lifecycle
• Practical application of core project management techniques
• Recent experience in a similar engineering, manufacturing or project‑led environment
• Awareness of different contracting and delivery methodologies
• Demonstrable involvement in project management activities

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager

• A recognised Project Management fundamentals qualification

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 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

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 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: 09/02/2026