Project Manager

Job Title:                     Project Manager

Location:                     Ashchurch, Goucestershire

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73056

Deliver engineering projects that protect the UK and shape the future

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 Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

We deliver critical engineering services that underpin defence and security across the UK. Our people are trusted to lead complex programmes where precision, integrity and collaboration matter and where every contribution supports national capability and public safety.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll be a key part of our Mission Systems business, delivering a portfolio of medium‑ to high‑complexity engineering projects that support major UK Defence and Security contracts. Working within our Prime Contract Office, you’ll take ownership of tasking across the full project lifecycle from requirements capture and costing through to delivery and continuous improvement.

This is a role with real responsibility and visibility. You’ll work at the frontline of defence engineering, building strong customer relationships, managing risk, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time and to cost. In return, you’ll benefit from a clearly defined progression pathway and the opportunity to build a long‑term career within a growing engineering services organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll

• Managing a portfolio of engineering projects, ensuring delivery to agreed cost, schedule and quality targets
• Leading end‑to‑end project delivery, from scoping and solution design through to handover
• Producing pricing models, gate review inputs and proposal documentation
• Managing project risks and applying lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
• Collaborating with internal teams, customers and supply chain partners to deliver complex solutions

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashcurch, Tewkesbury.

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Experience delivering engineering or technical projects using recognised project management methodologies
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
• Strong financial and commercial awareness, including cost and margin control
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers
• Background within defence, security or similarly regulated environments

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Recognised project management qualification or membership (such as Association for Project Management, APM Project Management Qualification, PRINCE2 or Project Management Institute), or willingness to obtain

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) 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, allowing you to buy or sell annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — paid leave for volunteering
• Flexible working to better integrate work and personal life, while meeting business needs
• A dynamic working environment within a trusted engineering organisation

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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