Project Support Officer

Location:
Gloucester, GB, GL20 8LZ

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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Project Support Officer

Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75102

Help Deliver Critical Defence and Security Projects That Make a Real Difference

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Support Officer at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Mission Systems business, supporting the delivery of some of the UK's most important Defence and Security programmes. Working alongside experienced project professionals on highly classified and technically complex projects, you'll gain valuable exposure to project management, engineering delivery, and stakeholder engagement while helping to protect national security.

The role

As a Project Support Officer, you'll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of defence and security programmes. You'll work within a collaborative Project Management Office, providing support across complex projects while also taking ownership of your own portfolio of smaller tasks and projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with project support, coordination, business administration, or project management experience who wants to build their career in a purpose-driven organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll gain exposure to a diverse range of engineering and technology projects, develop valuable project management skills, and contribute to programmes that have a genuine impact on society.

Supporting the delivery of contract tasking and projects as a key member of the Project Management Office.
Providing project administration, coordination and delivery support to Project Managers and Project Controllers on complex programmes.
Managing a portfolio of minor projects and work packages, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives.
Processing resource requests, coordinating schedules and monitoring resource allocation across engineering teams.
Supporting resource planning activities by maintaining project schedules and helping align resource availability with delivery priorities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 to 4 days onsite and rest of week working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Support Officer

Experience managing work packages, project activities, or multiple competing priorities within a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrable organisational and coordination skills with the ability to manage changing demands effectively.
Experience working collaboratively within a project, programme, or business support environment.
Sound commercial or financial awareness with experience supporting budget or cost management activities.
Experience working within the Defence and Security sector.

Qualifications for the Project Support Officer

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) and Developed Vetting 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
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.

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 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: 30/07/2026

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