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Your Role
Provides team management and leadership to deliver engineering activities to required technical scope and quality for - Low complexity engineering multi discipline projects or A single medium complexity engineering project. Ensures the application of engineering processes, resources and tools in line with Babcock policy to achieve the project or program technical outcomes. Individual may have allocation of a Technical Independent role for another project and or product, service
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Job Title: Project Commissioning Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £57, - £71, Depending on Experience + 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 Commissioning Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Project Commissioning Manager, you’ll take ownership of commissioning activities for submarine combat systems, ensuring safe, effective delivery of testing, trials and operational readiness for Vanguard Class submarines. This is a senior leadership role within the Commissioning Group, where your expertise will directly support the UK’s continuous at-sea deterrent.
Day-to-day, you’ll manage complex programmes across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring commissioning activities are delivered safely, on time and within budget. This role offers the opportunity to further develop your leadership capability while shaping the future of submarine operations in a highly regulated and mission-critical environment.
1. Leading the planning, coordination and delivery of commissioning tests and trials for combat systems
2. Managing technical issues, resources and schedules to ensure delivery to programme, budget and quality targets
3. Overseeing the review and approval of test documentation and commissioning plans
4. Providing leadership to commissioning teams and ensuring high standards of health and safety
5. Collaborating with internal teams, Ministry of Defence stakeholders and external partners to support programme delivery
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Project Commissioning Manager
6. Extensive knowledge of submarine systems, particularly combat systems and SSBN operations
7. Experience in commissioning, operation or refitting of nuclear submarines
8. Strong understanding of safe systems of work, isolation and control of work processes
9. Proven leadership and management experience within complex engineering environments
10. Strong planning, organisational and stakeholder management skills
Qualifications for the Project Commissioning Manager
11. Engineering degree or equivalent qualification (essential)
12. Alternatively, HNC or Foundation Degree in engineering with substantial relevant experience (essential)
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.
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