Assistant Project Manager

Babcock; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Digital GP & wellness benefits

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock International seeks an Assistant Project Manager for its Ashton House, near Bristol. This hybrid role involves coordinating complex defence programmes across the lifecycle, from planning through delivery, with a focus on scheduling, cost control, and risk management.

You will work with experienced professionals in the Mission Systems team to drive project governance, procurement, and stakeholder engagement while developing leadership skills for future roles.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the project lifecycle with practical experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management across teams and customers.
• Experience in planning, scheduling, cost tracking and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and delivery of projects, ensuring milestones and objectives are met.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, cost tracking, and risk management plans.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to drive progress.

Skills

Project lifecycle

Stakeholder management

Scheduling

Education

PFQ/PMQ qualification

Job description

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Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72985

Launch your project management career on critical national defence programmes

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 Ashton House, near Bristol, Somerset.

As part of our Mission Systems team, you’ll contribute to complex defence programmes that support the UK’s security and critical infrastructure. Working on high-profile projects such as submarine programmes, you’ll help deliver engineering excellence that truly makes a difference.

The role

As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll be embedded within one of our key programme teams, playing a vital role in delivering high-performance projects to our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to build your project management career within the defence, aerospace, and engineering sector, where your work supports meaningful and mission‑critical outcomes.

You’ll gain exposure to the full project lifecycle, from planning through to delivery, while working alongside experienced professionals. This role offers the chance to develop your skills in scheduling, cost control, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, helping you grow into a confident and capable project leader.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Supporting the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring milestones, schedules, and objectives are achieved
• Developing and maintaining project schedules, cost tracking, and risk management plans
• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to drive progress and resolve challenges
• Contributing to procurement activities and supporting project governance processes
• Monitoring performance and providing updates to ensure delivery remains on track

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite (typically Tuesday and Thursday as customer comes to them) and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager

• Demonstrating a strong understanding of the project lifecycle with practical project experience
• Building effective relationships through excellent stakeholder management skills
• Working within a project management or delivery-focused environment
• Collaborating confidently across teams and functions to achieve shared goals
• Managing competing priorities, deadlines, and changing requirements with resilience

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager

• PFQ and/or PMQ qualification or equivalent (desirable) other formal qualifications acceptable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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

• 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
• 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.

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