Assistant Project Manager at Babcock in Bristol, England, GB

Job Title: Manufacturing Assistant Project Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73365

Help deliver mission-critical manufacturing projects that support the future of UK defence

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Manufacturing Assistant Project Manager at Ashton House, Bristol.

Drawing on decades of engineering expertise, Babcock delivers complex programmes that help protect national security and support critical infrastructure. You'll contribute to projects that make a real difference in the defence and security sector.

The role

As a Manufacturing Assistant Project Manager, you'll support the successful delivery of projects within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Working alongside experienced project professionals, you'll play a key role in coordinating project activities, supporting planning and forecasting, managing risks and issues, and ensuring projects stay on track. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with project coordination, project controls, planning, or assistant project management experience who is looking to build a long-term career in project management within a leading defence and engineering organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Support project planning, scheduling and programme coordination activities.
• Monitor project risks and issues, helping to drive effective resolutions.
• Produce project reports, updates and stakeholder communications.
• Track project performance, forecasting activities and key milestones
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams and project stakeholders to achieve delivery objectives.

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 Manufacturing Assistant Project Manager

• Experience working within a project management, project coordination or project controls environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working to deadlines, plans and schedules in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of project lifecycles, schedule management and milestone tracking.
• Experience or confidence working within a production or manufacturing environment.

Qualifications for the Manufacturing 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) and Security Check (SC) 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 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 29,000 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 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: 23/11/2026

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