Project Assistant

Bristol - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Project Assistant

Location: Ashton Vale Bristol Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70423

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Project Assistant at Ashton House near Bristol.

The Role

As a Project Assistant youll play an important part in supporting the successful delivery of complex highprofile and missioncritical international submarine support programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to build a meaningful career in defence aerospace and engineering - working within a team that keeps global communities safe.

Youll be joining our Mission Systems business contributing to programmes that integrate worldleading technology intelligence surveillance and communications solutions. This role gives you the chance to develop your project management skills gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment and grow towards future roles such as Assistant Project Manager or Project Manager.

Day-to-day youll be required to:

Support a focused project delivery team working closely with two Assistant Project Managers.
Contribute to weekly monthly and quarterly project and programme reporting.
Support risk and opportunity management activities.
Maintain delivery schedules forecasts and baseline change requests.
Raise track and monitor purchase order requisitions to support procurement activities.

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office and 4 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Assistant

Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
Experience working effectively as part of a team.
Ability to demonstrate drive initiative and a positive approach to daily tasks.
Strong organisational skills and a taskorientated mindset.
(Desirable) Experience raising requisitions or working with purchase orders.
(Desirable) Experience of IFS or similar ERP/Oracle systems.

Qualifications for the Project Assistant

No formal qualifications are required for this role.
Any project-related training or exposure to ERP systems would be beneficial.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. You will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance but you will need to obtain Security Check (SC) once in post.

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 - ().

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working days 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

Babcock

Were Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 03/03/2026

Required Experience:

Junior IC

Job Title: Project AssistantLocation: Ashton Vale Bristol Hybrid Working ArrangementsCompensation: Competitive Salary BenefitsRole Type: Full time / PermanentRole ID: SF70423At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a ...