Assistant Project Manager

Babcock; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Assistant Project Manager in Bristol, where you'll manage key support programs for the UK Submarine Fleet. This role involves scheduling, cost control, and stakeholder collaboration, with opportunities for hybrid working and professional development.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Flexible working options

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a project management environment.
• Confident collaborator with experience working in partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for scheduling, cost control, risk management, and procurement.
• Point of contact for cross function liaison to ensure on time delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Collaboration

Education

Project Fundamentals Qualification

Project Management Qualification

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60418

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 support programmes and be integral to achieving high-performance delivery of both Technical and Inventory support to the UK Submarine Fleet.

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.

• Responsible for “Make/Buy” decisions.
• Responsible for control and monitoring of significant procurement budget.
• Point of contact for cross function liaison to ensure on time delivery to the customer.
• Responsible for progress reports for both internal and external consumption.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires travel to Ashton Vale, Bristol monthly basis alongside home working arrangements. You will be required to travel to customer sites in the Bristol area.

Essential Experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Experience in a project management environment.
• Confident collaborator with experience working in partnerships.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager

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

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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) with the intention to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.

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 atUnited 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Opportunities to travel within the UK
• A dynamic working environment

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 [e-mail] 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: 11/04/2025

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