Job Title: Sustainability Assistant
Location: UK, Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75632
Help Shape a More Sustainable Future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Sustainability Assistant near your preferred Babcock location, including Bristol, Devonport, Leicester, London, Portsmouth, Rosyth or Warrington.
This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career professional, recent graduate, or someone completing a graduate scheme who is passionate about sustainability and keen to build a rewarding career in a purpose-driven organisation.
As a Sustainability Assistant, you will support the delivery of Babcock's sustainability strategy, helping the business monitor, report on and improve its environmental and social performance. Working within the Group Sustainability team and reporting directly to the Group Head of Sustainability Engagement, you'll gain exposure to a broad range of sustainability initiatives while developing valuable skills across engagement, reporting, environmental and social impact programmes.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build your career in sustainability within a leading international organisation operating across defence, aerospace and engineering. Your work will support the needs of customers, regulators, investors, employees and communities, contributing to a safer, more sustainable future.
Day-to-day you’ll be responsible for:
- Supporting the delivery of the sustainability engagement strategy across the business.
- Contributing to sustainability reporting activities, including annual report content and supporting materials.
- Assisting with environmental, social and sustainability data projects across multiple functions.
- Building relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the wider organisation to support sustainability objectives.
- Managing competing priorities while handling sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and can be based at any of our main UK locations. Hybrid working patterns are available and occasional travel for onsite team meetings will be expected.
Essential Experience of the Sustainability Assistant:
- Demonstrating a genuine commitment to environmental and/or social sustainability issues.
- Showing a desire to develop transferable skills and build experience within a sustainability function.
- Displaying curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn.
- Possessing excellent written and verbal communication skills, alongside strong numeracy and digital literacy.
- Applying strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise multiple tasks effectively.
Qualifications for the Sustainability Assistant:
Essential:
- Degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Political Science, Geography, History, Literature, Social Sciences or Communications
- Recent completion of a related graduate-level apprenticeship.
Desirable:
- Additional study, training or experience related to sustainability, environmental management, corporate responsibility or environmental, social and governance reporting.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
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: 01/09/2026
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