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

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

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 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.