Job Title: Programme Manager Strategic Projects
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead the programmes that shape the future of defence, engineering and maritime innovation
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Manager Strategic Projects at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.
As a global engineering and support services organisation, Babcock delivers critical capabilities across defence, aerospace and complex engineering. Our work protects communities, strengthens national security and enables innovation at scale — and we do it with purpose.
The role
As a Programme Manager Strategic Projects, you will be at the heart of Babcock’s strategic growth, turning ambition into delivery. This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, brings clarity to multi‑workstream programmes and takes pride in delivering outcomes that matter.
Sitting within our Growth and Engineering directorate, you’ll lead strategically important programmes from concept through to completion. Your work will shape new technologies, improve operational performance and position Babcock for long‑term commercial success — while accelerating your own leadership development in a highly visible, business‑critical role.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Owning end‑to‑end delivery of complex, strategic programmes, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, within scope and with clear commercial benefit
2. Leading development, improvement and FEED initiatives, embedding lifecycle, manufacturability and service considerations from the outset
3. Providing programme‑level governance, control and reporting across multiple concurrent workstreams, managing risk, dependency and change
4. Operating within structured stage‑gate governance frameworks, owning business cases, documentation and evidence‑based decision making
5. Acting as the connective lead across engineering, commercial and external stakeholders, representing Babcock with credibility and confidence.
This role is full time (37.5 hours per week) and based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of three days per week on site, international travel, will be expected.
Essential experience of the Programme Manager Strategic Projects:
6. Proven experience delivering complex, multi‑workstream programmes within an engineering or technically led environment
7. Strong programme governance capability, including stage‑gate or gated development frameworks
8. Sound commercial awareness, with experience integrating cost, margin, schedule and lifecycle considerations
9. Technical credibility enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams and external stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Programme Manager Strategic Projects:
10. Formal project or programme management qualification (APM, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent)
11. Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering, technical or numerate discipline
12. Experience within marine, energy, capital equipment or similarly regulated engineering sectors (desirable).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain BPSS 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
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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.
We are a disability confident committed employer.