Job Title: Type 31 Project Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45, - £52, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Naval Engineering – Join the Type 31 Frigate Programme
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 Type 31 Project Manager at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Type 31 Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most ambitious defence programmes - the Type 31 Frigate Project. This is your chance to help deliver five advanced, adaptable warships for the Royal Navy, supporting missions from maritime security and humanitarian aid to operations in high-threat environments. Your work will make a real difference to national security and global stability while accelerating your career in a dynamic, innovative environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
1. Deliver key project management functions to support overall project delivery
2. Plan, monitor, and control work packages
3. Produce and communicate project reporting data
4. Manage stakeholder relationships and communications
5. Review, update, and enact the GFA Management Strategy
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days in the office/onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Type 31 Project Manager
6. Ability to act as a central point between multiple stakeholders, driving issues to resolution
7. Strong customer and supplier orientation with collaborative problem-solving skills
8. Proven relationship management with internal and external stakeholders
9. Enterprise mindset – working interdependently to achieve team success
10. Solid commercial acumen and experience in collaborative environments
Qualifications for the Type 31 Project Manager
11. Degree in a relevant subject - desirable
12. Lean Six Sigma - desirable
13. Prince2 or APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) - desirable
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 .
What we offer
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
22. ‘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
23. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.