Physical Security Delivery Project Manager

Job Title:                     Physical Security Delivery Project Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £44,600 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73568

Protect critical national infrastructure through world‑class security delivery

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 Physical Security Delivery Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Physical Security Delivery Project Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of physical security solutions within a major defence infrastructure programme. Working as part of the Major Infrastructure Projects portfolio, you’ll provide oversight across the project, technical, construction and commissioning phases, ensuring security requirements are fully integrated and delivered to time, cost and quality.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with project managers, designers, contractors and Ministry of Defence stakeholders, influencing outcomes that directly support ship and submarine sustainment programmes. The role offers breadth, visibility and the chance to deepen your expertise in security delivery within a complex, highly regulated environment.

• Leading delivery of physical security work packages, ensuring alignment with programme objectives
• Providing oversight across design, construction and commissioning phases of security solutions
• Managing interfaces with project, technical and construction teams, resolving issues collaboratively
• Engaging with stakeholders, including Ministry of Defence representatives and delivery partners
• Monitoring progress against scope, schedule and cost, escalating risks where required

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Physical Security Delivery Project Manager

• Proven experience in project management, ideally within security or building design delivery
• Experience delivering projects under NEC4 contracts
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively within small, multidisciplinary teams
• Strong experience managing multiple stakeholders in complex environments
• Knowledge of physical high‑security environments and relevant standards or guidance

Qualifications for the Physical Security Delivery Project Manager

• HNC, HND or Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.

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: 24/05/2026

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