Job Title: Design Delivery Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51,941 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70801
The role
As a Design Delivery Project Manager you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering major infrastructure upgrades that support some of the UK’s most important defence assets. This is an opportunity to join a highly skilled and purpose‑driven team working on complex engineering and construction programmes that help protect national security.
Day-to-day responsibilities
* Leading the client-side project and engineering team to deliver integrated design packages across buildings, MEP, civil and structural disciplines.
* Supporting the wider Project Manager in administering multiple NEC4 design contracts, ensuring schedule, scope, cost, and risk targets are met.
* Working closely with stakeholders to define requirements, shaping technical solutions and ensuring designs align with operational needs.
* Interpreting and analysing supply chain data to support planning, decision‑making, and performance reporting.
* Managing budgets, risks, documentation, and deliverables, while offering direction and support to Project Managers and Engineers.
Essential experience
* Experience working in complex project environments, ideally in heavy civil engineering or infrastructure.
* Strong understanding of NEC4 contracts.
* Experience delivering safety‑critical structures or services, nuclear licensed site experience is an advantage.
* Proven capability in design delivery, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
* Ability to interpret technical or supply chain information and turn it into practical actions.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, Project Management or Construction Management.
* APM Project Management Qualification (or equivalent).
* NEC4 Accredited Project Manager – desirable.
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. Eligibility may be affected by nationality, citizenship, and residency.
What We Offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
* Holiday Trading benefit allows employees to buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
* Be Kind Day enables one working day's paid leave a year for volunteering.
* Excellent development opportunities and employee assistance programme for wellbeing.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header “Reasonable adjustments requirement”. We are also open to flexible working arrangements and alternative patterns of work.
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