Job Title:                     PMO Assistant

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF70988

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

The Role

As a PMO Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting a wide portfolio of projects within our Mission Systems business - an area trusted across global defence and security. This is a fantastic opportunity to build a career in project controls and project governance, contributing to critical defence, aerospace and engineering programmes that safeguard people and infrastructure. You’ll support the smooth running of our project management framework, helping to create consistency, drive best practice and ensure seamless delivery across our teams.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Connect with project teams to ensure documentation, processes and governance requirements are in place.
• Support and track projects adopting our project management framework.
• Ensure projects meet policy and governance milestones, including scheduling reviews and coordinating documentation.
• Communicate guidance to project teams and support the implementation of change initiatives and tools.
• Manage and maintain data across PMO tools, proactively keeping information accurate and up to date.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with initially 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home. But will progress to be onsite as and when required.

Essential experience of the PMO Assistant

• Strong administrative experience, ideally within project management or project office environments.
• Highly organised, proactive and motivated, with strong follow‑through skills.
• Comfortable handling data with excellent attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools, including Excel and Teams.
• Appreciation for project governance (desirable).

Qualifications for the PMO Assistant

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 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 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

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.

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 [email protected] 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: 05/02/2026

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