Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £57, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Deliver projects that protect national capability and shape the future
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 responsible for delivering defined project work packages within our Major Infrastructure Projects business area. Working in a highly regulated environment, you’ll balance schedule, cost, quality and risk to ensure successful outcomes that meet customer and business expectations.
Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams and trusted partners, managing delivery from initiation through to completion. Along the way, you’ll strengthen your leadership capability, deepen your project controls expertise and build experience on nationally significant programmes, accelerating your career in defence and engineering.
1. Delivering project management activities including schedule, cost, risk and reporting
2. Managing work packages delivered by internal teams and external suppliers
3. Controlling project budgets, forecasts and financial performance
4. Engaging stakeholders to agree scope, requirements and delivery plans
5. Applying project controls and governance using agreed business systems and frameworks
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Project Manager
6. Demonstrable experience delivering projects or work packages within complex environments
7. Proven ability to manage schedule, cost, risk and resource effectively
8. Experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and third‑party suppliers
9. Ability to support or lead elements of larger, complex projects
10. Experience working in regulated or safety‑critical sectors is advantageous
Qualifications for the Project Manager
11. A Level 4 qualification in engineering, project management, construction or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
12. Association for Project Management qualification - Desirable
13. Working toward or holding Registered Project Professional status would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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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