Project Support Officer

Job Title: Project Support Officer

Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60416

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 Support Officer at our Ashchurch, Tewkesbury site.

The Role

As a Project Support Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You can play your part as a Project Support Officer at the front of delivering some of the UK’s key Defence and Security contracts by providing key administrative support to the project team and wider business, as well as managing a small portfolio of minor tasks.

Day-to-day, you’ll be providing end-to-end delivery of all contract tasking and projects, you’ll report to a Senior Project Manager. Managing a high volume of transactional tasks across a number of engineering-based contracts based globally, role offers great variety in tasking and the opportunity to work directly with our customers.

• Providing day-to-day support, as well as deputising for Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers for the delivery of complex projects and work packages.
• Production and maintenance of high-quality project documentation such as project schedules, risk registers, action logs, change requests, health and safety documentation, Gate review packs and handover documentation.
• Providing regular and accurate management information reporting to customers and seniors
• Managing all aspects of a portfolio of minor tasks, including customer and supplier liaison, financial and schedule management.
• Registering new customer tasking, responding to customer queries and the production of quotations and minor proposals to customers within our contractual service level agreements.
• Monitoring and updating of internal tasking systems to ensure that task workflows are appropriately managed and key updates and actions are fulfilled in a timely and accurate manner.

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

Essential Experience of the Project Support Officer

• Great organisational skills to manage changing demands in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in managing a portfolio of work packages or projects with competing demands and deadlines.
• A team player, able to work well on their own but also someone who can be relied upon by others to own and deliver.
• Good financial skills to manage project costs and report on profit.
• Experience of working within the Defence and Security sector is highly desirable.

Qualifications for the Project Support Officer 

• Must possess, or be willing to gain, a baseline understanding of project and risk management methodologies consistent with the Association for Project Management (APM) framework, or equivalent.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) 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
• 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
• Potential to develop skills
• 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: 12/02/2025

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