Assistant Project Manager

weServed; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Job summary

Babcock in Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support the delivery of highly classified defence programmes. You will work with Project Managers, Programme Managers and engineering teams to help ensure projects are delivered on time and to specification.

This permanent, full-time role is 37 hours per week with hybrid working (3–4 days onsite). A SC/DV clearance is required, and PFQ/PMQ qualifications are desirable.

Qualifications

• Experience working within a project management or project delivery environment.
• Collaborating effectively with a range of stakeholders and functional teams.
• Demonstrating initiative, enthusiasm and a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Working to challenging deadlines, project plans and delivery schedules.
• Supporting the successful delivery of projects within a complex operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Supporting project planning, scheduling and delivery activities across multiple workstreams.
• Managing project controls including cost tracking, reporting and performance monitoring.
• Coordinating risk management, procurement activities and project documentation.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, customers and multidisciplinary teams to maintain project momentum.
• Driving the successful achievement of project milestones, objectives and deliverables.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Cost control

Communication

Education

PFQ or PMQ qualification

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74489

Help Deliver Mission-Critical Defence Programmes That Protect the Future

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Project Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

The role

As an Assistant Project Manager, you'll play a vital role in supporting the delivery of highly classified and technically complex defence projects within our Mission Technologies business. Working at the heart of programmes that contribute to national security, you'll collaborate with Project Managers, Programme Managers and specialist engineering teams to ensure projects are delivered successfully.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your project management career within a leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisation. Whether you're looking to take the next step in your project management career or develop your expertise in a highly regulated environment, Babcock offers the experience, support and opportunities to help you thrive.

Day-to-day, you'll gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies, develop valuable stakeholder management skills and contribute to programmes that make a genuine difference to the safety and security of the UK.

• Supporting project planning, scheduling and delivery activities across multiple workstreams.
• Managing project controls including cost tracking, reporting and performance monitoring.
• Coordinating risk management, procurement activities and project documentation.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, customers and multidisciplinary teams to maintain project momentum.
• Driving the successful achievement of project milestones, objectives and deliverables.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3-4 days onsite and the other days working from home.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Experience working within a project management or project delivery environment.
• Collaborating effectively with a range of stakeholders and functional teams.
• Demonstrating initiative, enthusiasm and a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Working to challenging deadlines, project plans and delivery schedules.
• Supporting the successful delivery of projects within a complex operational environment.

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager

• PFQ and/or PMQ qualification or equivalent (desirable)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) 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 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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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 [e-mail] 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: 16/09/2026