Senior Project Manager

Job Title:                      Senior Project Manager

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife  

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF74570

Lead Major Infrastructure Projects That Help Create a Safe and Secure World

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 Rosyth site.

The role

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide strategic leadership across multiple infrastructure and construction projects, ensuring successful delivery against cost, schedule, quality and performance objectives. Beyond project delivery, you'll play a key role in developing project management capability, driving governance excellence, and influencing decisions at a senior level.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Leading the delivery of multiple concurrent construction and infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Managing, coaching and developing Project Managers and wider project delivery teams to achieve outstanding performance.
• Driving project governance, assurance activities and the review of key project plans, reports and deliverables.
• Engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders, acting as an escalation point for project risks and programme-level decisions.
• Overseeing portfolio planning, resource allocation, forecasting and financial performance across a range of projects.

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

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager

• Significant experience delivering large-scale construction and infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Proven track record of managing multiple projects, programmes or portfolios with accountability for cost, schedule and quality.
• Demonstrable experience leading and developing Project Managers or project delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of construction contracts and commercial frameworks, including NEC, JCT or FIDIC.
• Experience operating within regulated environments with strong knowledge of compliance, health, safety and quality requirements.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

• Degree in Construction, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Professional membership with a recognised institution such as CIOB, RICS, CIBSE, APM or equivalent.
• Formal Project Management qualification such as APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent.
• SMSTS certification or equivalent construction site management qualification.
• IOSH qualification or equivalent health and safety certification

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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 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: 14/07/2026

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