Job Title
Design Delivery Project Manager
Location
Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation
Competitive + Benefits
Role Type
Full time / Permanent
Role ID
SF70801
Overview
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 Design Delivery Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
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.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with the majority of time spent onsite at Devonport.
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 - Desirable
- 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. 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Benefits
- 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave. Annual request window available.
- Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Application Information
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 30/06/2026
