Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £54, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of a nationally significant programme spanning more than 20 years, delivering activities that haven’t been undertaken in the UK for decades and supporting one of the most specialised stages of the submarine lifecycle.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead a defined scope of work, managing multidisciplinary teams and collaborating closely with engineering, operations, planning, finance, subcontractors and regulators. Your work will shape the successful delivery of complex projects and provide outstanding career development in a major defence environment.
1. Lead a defined project scope, setting direction, deploying resources and driving collaboration to deliver agreed outcomes.
2. Manage and develop people across direct, dotted‑line and matrix structures, driving high performance and cohesion.
3. Oversee governance, processes and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of progress, priorities and compliance.
4. Control financial, operational and subcontractor resources, ensuring delivery aligns with agreed cost, time and quality.
5. Lead risk and issue management activities, identifying and mitigating threats and opportunities.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Project Manager
6. Demonstrated experience in schedule planning and management.
7. Strong background in risk, opportunity and issue management.
8. Practical knowledge of budgeting, cost control and financial oversight.
9. Proven leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
10. Experience engaging, influencing and managing stakeholders and communications.
Qualifications for the Project Manager
11. APM Project Management Qualification or a degree in a STEM or business discipline.
12. APM Project Risk Management Level 2 - Desirable
13. Project Planning and Controls Foundation - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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