Project Manager

Job Title:              Project Manager
Location:              Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF61495

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 Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be playing an important role in maintaining the project teams’ high level of on time delivery, to both internal and external stakeholders, whilst ensuring the mandated governance of the project is adhered to.

Day-to-day, you’ll be liaising with the core team and cross function stakeholders to ensure all deliverables are met whilst maintain a collaborative working environment. 

You will also take accountability for critical business requirements from day one. You will be in a prominent position within a high performing team, responsible for the provision of In-Service Support to a variety of equipment fitted into the current UK Submarine Fleet. Your responsibilities will be around the Project Controls.

• Planning, implementation, monitor and control of the project scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, quality and Health, Safety, And Environmental (HSE) requirements.
• Planning and controlling finances by means of accurate estimation, forecast to complete and strong monitoring and control of spend.
• Actively identifying, planning and controlling risk and opportunity to maximise value for the customer and our business.
• Establishing and maintaining governance arrangements for the delivery of the project, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities across all project stakeholders, and ensuring they are communicated.
• Implementing and enforcing project reporting policies, ensuring reports are accurate, timely and presented in a professional and appropriate format.   
• Planning and delivering the stakeholder and communications management for the project through systemic identification and analysis of stakeholders, and the planning and conduct of interactions to engage and communicate with them.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with up to 2 days onsite per month.

Essential Experience of the Project Manager

• Experience in a project management environment within industry.
• Confident collaborator with experience working in partnership.
• Knowledge of project controls tools and how these tools operate to provide key information for decision making.
• Commercially and financially astute, with a challenging mind-set.
• Excellent interpersonal skills / stakeholder management – communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and with external bodies.
• Experience of the full project lifecycle.

Qualifications for the Project Manager 

• Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Project Management Qualification (PMQ) (desirable) or equivalent.
• UK driving Licence.
• Working towards chartership.

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).

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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 23/01/2025 

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