Career Opportunities: Project Assistant (60702)

Job Title:              Project Assistant
Location:              Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF60702

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Assistant at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As a Project Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll have the ability to directly contribute to the successful delivery of our complex, high profile and mission critical projects & programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a focused project team supporting various activities required for contract delivery.

• Contribute to weekly, monthly and quarterly project/programme reporting requirements.
• Support risk and opportunity management.
• Maintain delivery schedules, forecasts and baseline change requests.
• Raise, control and monitor purchase order requisitions in our business system to initiate key procurement activities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the onsite and 3 days working from home. This role may be required to work for longer periods onsite, if the project demands.

Essential Experience of the Project Assistant

• Good familiarity with Microsoft Office software.
• Experience working in teams, with an organised, tasks orientated mindset.
• Able to show drive and desire to make a daily positive impact.
• Procurement – raising requisitions, tracking purchase orders.

Qualifications for the Project Assistant

• Minimum GCSE English and Mathematics Grade 5 or equivalent.
   

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, you will be able to start on Standard (BPSS) with the intention to gain Security Check (SC).

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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• 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 International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 16/12/2024

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