Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Ashchurch, Goucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Deliver engineering projects that protect the UK and shape the 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 Project Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
We deliver critical engineering services that underpin defence and security across the UK. Our people are trusted to lead complex programmes where precision, integrity and collaboration matter and where every contribution supports national capability and public safety.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll be a key part of our Mission Systems business, delivering a portfolio of medium‑ to high‑complexity engineering projects that support major UK Defence and Security contracts. Working within our Prime Contract Office, you’ll take ownership of tasking across the full project lifecycle from requirements capture and costing through to delivery and continuous improvement.
This is a role with real responsibility and visibility. You’ll work at the frontline of defence engineering, building strong customer relationships, managing risk, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time and to cost. In return, you’ll benefit from a clearly defined progression pathway and the opportunity to build a long‑term career within a growing engineering services organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll
1. Managing a portfolio of engineering projects, ensuring delivery to agreed cost, schedule and quality targets
2. Leading end‑to‑end project delivery, from scoping and solution design through to handover
3. Producing pricing models, gate review inputs and proposal documentation
4. Managing project risks and applying lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
5. Collaborating with internal teams, customers and supply chain partners to deliver complex solutions
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashcurch, Tewkesbury.
Essential experience of the Project Manager
6. Experience delivering engineering or technical projects using recognised project management methodologies
7. Proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
8. Strong financial and commercial awareness, including cost and margin control
9. Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers
10. Background within defence, security or similarly regulated environments
Qualifications for the Project Manager
11. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
12. Recognised project management qualification or membership (such as Association for Project Management, APM Project Management Qualification, PRINCE2 or Project Management Institute), or willingness to obtain
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) 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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