Junior Project Manager

Job Title:                     Junior Project Manager

Location:                     UK Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74245

Launch Your Project Management Career in a World That Matters

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Junior Project Manager working at any of our main UK locations.

The role

As a Junior Project Manager, you will play a vital role in delivering projects that support critical defence, aerospace, and engineering programmes. You will help ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards—making a real difference to national security and infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Deliver projects in line with established project delivery lifecycle processes
• Define and maintain project governance, including roles, responsibilities, and reporting structures
• Manage work packages to ensure successful delivery of project outputs
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor progress, risks, and performance to ensure projects meet time, cost, and quality targets

This role is full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday with flexibility on work location.  Hybrid working arrangements are available.

Essential Experience of the Junior Project Manager:

• Experience working within a project delivery team in an information technology or digital environment
• Understanding of current technology, products, and services
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, with working knowledge of PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Microsoft Project (desirable)
• Awareness of infrastructure or application technologies (advantageous)

Qualifications for the Junior Project Manager:

• A foundation-level qualification in Project Management
• Commitment to achieving further recognised certification such as PRINCE2, Association for Project Management, or equivalent

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

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: 16/06/2026

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