Senior IT Project Manager

Job Title:                     Senior IT Project Manager

Location:                     Hybrid, UK

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72405

Lead Digital Transformation That Underpins National Security

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior IT Project Manager at our UK locations with RAF Brize Norton as the main hub, near Carterton, Oxfordshire.

The role

As a Senior IT Project Manager, you’ll take a leading role in delivering the digital capabilities that sit at the heart of Babcock’s mission supporting defence, aerospace, and engineering operations across the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to manage high‑value, strategically important IT projects that directly enhance how our teams operate, collaborate, and protect national interests.

You’ll shape and deliver complex technology programmes that modernise systems, improve user experience, and connect thousands of people working in critical environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll be working in a team that values innovation, structured processes, and continuous improvement, you’ll grow your expertise while contributing to engineering that truly matters.

• Ensuring the implementation of structured project management processes to deliver business value from IT projects.
• Developing project plans, assigning tasks, and directing and monitoring daily work activities across multiple teams.
• Overseeing project quality through regular review, ensuring risks, issues, and dependencies are managed proactively.
• Tracking key milestones and making adjustments to plans or resources to meet customer and business needs.
• Maintaining comprehensive project documentation in line with Babcock’s IT Project Management standards.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.  You will be required to go to RAF Brize Norton on a regular basis.

Essential experience of the Senior IT Project Manager

• Experienced IT professional, committed to delivering cost‑effective and efficient project outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience in IT software application project management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project (Project Server experience preferred).
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously (typically four or five).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Qualifications for the Senior IT Project Manager

• PRINCE, APM or equivalent project management certification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options (subject to business need)
• A dynamic working environment that supports development, wellbeing, and long‑term career progression

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: 25/03/2026