Project Manager

Job Title:                     Project Manager

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74001

Deliver Complex Programmes That Shape a Safer World

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 our site, near Bristol, Somerset.

Join a business that supports vital defence, aerospace and engineering programmes across the UK. Here, you’ll work on projects that truly matter helping deliver critical capabilities that keep people safe and infrastructure running.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll lead the successful delivery of complex engineering projects from concept through to completion. You’ll have the opportunity to shape outcomes, drive performance, and collaborate with expert teams across multiple disciplines gaining exposure to cutting-edge technologies and nationally critical work.

This is a role where your leadership and decision-making skills will directly influence project success, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence. You’ll build your career in a supportive environment that encourages continuous development and progression.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the planning and delivery of projects to agreed scope, schedule, and budget
• Managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and alignment
• Monitoring project performance and managing risks, issues, and change control
• Coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and objectives
• Ensuring compliance with governance, safety, and quality standards

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with Wednesday and Thursday onsite (although this is flexible) and the other days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Demonstrating experience delivering complex projects in engineering, defence, or similar environments
• Managing budgets, schedules, and resources effectively across project lifecycles
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Applying structured project management methodologies
• Leading and motivating multidisciplinary teams to deliver results

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• PMQ or PPQ (desirable) or equivalent Excellent stakeholder management

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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).

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 is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

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: 24/06/2026

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