Senior Project Manager

Job Title:                Senior Project Manager
Location:                Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation:      Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:             Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                  SF56015

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 Senior Project Manager at our Ashchurch site.

The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a high calibre Senior Project Manager with demonstrable expertise in the delivery of complex engineering requirements. Commercially and financially astute with great organisational and planning skills, you will be able to interact confidently with senior leaders and stakeholders, utilising your strong communication skills to build effective relationships. Most importantly, your motivation, drive and passion for managing and delivering successful outcomes will motivate your colleagues and delight our customers.

Day to day, you’ll provide overall operational and strategic management of assigned tasks projects within your project team, as well as:

• Provide end-to-end delivery throughout the project lifecycle, you’ll also be responsible for supporting with requirement capture, scoping, technical and commercial solutions and the generation of pricing models and proposal documents. 
• Provide effective risk management to ensure that the business’ risk exposure is kept to a minimum and is effectively managed throughout the project. 
• Ensure that effective change management is applied to projects, balancing flexibility to changing customer requirements with the need for robust commercial agreements. 
• Define acceptance criteria for contracted deliverables and production of professional handover documentation to ensure timely close-out of milestones and projects as well as technical handover to our operations teams. 
• Identify, review, and apply lessons learnt as part of continuous improvement for future requirements.

This role is full time and based on site at Ashchurch.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:

• Considerable experience in the advanced application of Project Management techniques in a relevant technical project environment
• Experience of working within the Defence and Security sector is highly desirable.
• Experience of working in an engineering environment 
• Experience in leading and managing a team of project staff, providing direction and motivation.
• Experience managing a portfolio of projects with differing demands and deadlines.
• Great financial management to ensure a high level of profitability on projects.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that this position is subject to national security vetting. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements, which includes having Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance in place.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have 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. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.