Job Title: Project Assistant
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54247
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 Bristol site.
The role
As a Project Assistant, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact as part of an international defence company. We support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
Day to day, you'll play a key role in delivering complex, high-profile and mission critical projects and programmes.
- Contribute to project/program reporting requirements (weekly, monthly, quarterly)
- Support risk and opportunity management
- Maintain project delivery schedules, forecasts, and baseline changes
- Manage purchase order requisitions in our business system to initiate key procurement activities
This role is full time, 37-hours per week, with a hybrid working from home arrangement; two days per week working on site at our Ashton House offices in South Bristol.
Essential experience of the Project Assistant
- Proficiency with MS Office applications
- Procurement - raising requisitions, tracking purchase orders (desirable)
- Organised, task-oriented mindset
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in teams
- A drive to make a daily positive impact
Qualifications for the Project Assistant
- We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve a minimum of BPSS security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- 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.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 22/03/24
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