At a Glance
- Tasks: Support complex engineering projects and coordinate with diverse teams for successful delivery.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence and engineering with a mission-driven culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, generous holiday, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic, inclusive environment with excellent career growth and work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while growing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and strong communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 58349 - 71315 £ per year.
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
As an Assistant Project Manager Production, you will be embedded within one of our Mission Systems production programmes, supporting the successful delivery of complex engineering projects. This is a highly visible role where your coordination, organisation and problem-solving skills will directly influence project outcomes that matter to national security and customer success. You will work closely with manufacturing, engineering and commercial teams, gaining hands-on exposure to the full project lifecycle while building strong stakeholder relationships. It is an opportunity to grow your project management capability within a supportive, high-performance environment and develop a career at the cutting edge of defence engineering.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Supporting planning, scheduling, cost control and risk management activities across production programmes
- Coordinating work packages and monitoring progress to ensure delivery against agreed plans
- Working collaboratively with manufacturing, engineering and procurement teams to drive momentum
- Engaging with internal stakeholders to communicate progress, issues and mitigation actions
- Contributing to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance delivery performance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Assistant Project Manager:
- Experience working within a project management or delivery environment
- Understanding of the project lifecycle from planning through to delivery
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to work to deadlines, schedules and changing priorities
- Confidence working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams
Qualifications for the Assistant Project Manager:
- Project Management qualification or equivalent experience (PFQ and/or PMQ desirable)
Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
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, allowing employees to buy or sell annual leave
- 'Be Kind Day' - one paid volunteering day per year
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- A dynamic, inclusive working environment focused on growth and wellbeing
Babcock is 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 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: 28/08/2026
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