Job Title: Dreadnought Programme Manager
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + 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 Dreadnought Programme Manager at our Ashton Vale site.
The role
As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Leveraging your skills in project delivery and leadership, you will lead a mission-critical, high-profile, and complex programme with change and transformational elements.
Your key responsibilities include leading a multi-disciplinary team to deliver systems for the UK’s national deterrent platform, the Dreadnought class submarine. Drawing on your experience managing programmes, you will support the delivery of large and technically complex equipment/system contracts.
Day-to-day, you will provide leadership, guidance, and support to a large team, prioritizing to meet delivery commitments and financial goals. You will be responsible for direct customer interaction, ensuring their confidence in Babcock’s delivery. Additionally, you will:
1. Attend senior stakeholder meetings with Babcock leadership, Commercial, and MoD customers.
2. Develop and implement strategies for the program team.
3. Manage timelines and deliverables.
This role is full time, 37 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 Dreadnought Programme Manager
4. Strong Project and Programme Management knowledge
5. Experienced in delivering complex programmes
Qualifications for the Dreadnought Programme Manager
6. You will ideally hold a project management qualification such as APM PMQ, ChPP or equivalent
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) 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 (
What we offer
7. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
8. Generous holiday allowance
9. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
10. Employee share scheme
11. Employee shopping savings portal
12. Payment of Professional Fees
13. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
14. 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
15. ‘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