Project Manager

Job Title:                     Project Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £57,300 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73160

Deliver projects that protect national capability and shape the future

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering defined project work packages within our Major Infrastructure Projects business area. Working in a highly regulated environment, you’ll balance schedule, cost, quality and risk to ensure successful outcomes that meet customer and business expectations.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams and trusted partners, managing delivery from initiation through to completion. Along the way, you’ll strengthen your leadership capability, deepen your project controls expertise and build experience on nationally significant programmes, accelerating your career in defence and engineering.

• Delivering project management activities including schedule, cost, risk and reporting
• Managing work packages delivered by internal teams and external suppliers
• Controlling project budgets, forecasts and financial performance
• Engaging stakeholders to agree scope, requirements and delivery plans
• Applying project controls and governance using agreed business systems and frameworks

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Demonstrable experience delivering projects or work packages within complex environments
• Proven ability to manage schedule, cost, risk and resource effectively
• Experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and third‑party suppliers
• Ability to support or lead elements of larger, complex projects
• Experience working in regulated or safety‑critical sectors is advantageous

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• A Level 4 qualification in engineering, project management, construction or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Association for Project Management qualification - Desirable
• Working toward or holding Registered Project Professional status would be advantageous

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: 05/05/2026

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