Project Support Officer in Tewkesbury

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL20 8LZ. Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid.

Help Deliver Critical Defence and Security Projects That Make a Real Difference. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Support Officer in Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Mission Systems business, supporting the delivery of some of the UK's most important Defence and Security programmes. Working alongside experienced project professionals on highly classified and technically complex projects, you'll gain valuable exposure to project management, engineering delivery, and stakeholder engagement while helping to protect national security.

Role

• As a Project Support Officer, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of defence and security programmes.
• You’ll work within a collaborative Project Management Office, providing support across complex projects while also taking ownership of your own portfolio of smaller tasks and projects.
• Supporting the delivery of contract tasking and projects as a key member of the Project Management Office.
• Providing project administration, coordination and delivery support to Project Managers and Project Controllers on complex programmes.
• Managing a portfolio of minor projects and work packages, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives.
• Processing resource requests, coordinating schedules and monitoring resource allocation across engineering teams.
• Supporting resource planning activities by maintaining project schedules and helping align resource availability with delivery priorities.

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

Essential Experience

• Experience managing work packages, project activities, or multiple competing priorities within a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable organisational and coordination skills with the ability to manage changing demands effectively.
• Experience working collaboratively within a project, programme, or business support environment.
• Sound commercial or financial awareness with experience supporting budget or cost management activities.
• Experience working within the Defence and Security sector.

Qualifications

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) and Developed Vetting 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.

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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with a chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – more options to better integrate work and personal life while ensuring business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. 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 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.