Ship Delivery Project Manager

Job Title:                      Ship Delivery Project Manager

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife  

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF71286

Lead the successful delivery of a next‑generation naval vessel.

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 Ship Delivery Project Manager at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Ship Delivery Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a pivotal role in the delivery of the Type 31 Ship 4 programme — one of the UK’s flagship naval projects shaping the future of defence and maritime capability. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high‑profile engineering project that directly contributes to national security, while growing your career within complex project delivery and marine engineering.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead and manage an integrated project team spanning Engineering, Safety, Commercial, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, and Project Controls.
• Oversee planning, monitoring and control activities, ensuring the project delivers on scope, time, cost and quality.
• Manage customer and stakeholder interfaces, including identifying risks, proposing solutions and driving effective responses.
• Provide clear governance, establishing roles, responsibilities and reporting structures that maintain strong project oversight.
• Produce and present monthly performance reports, highlighting progress, corrective actions and any deviations.

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

Essential experience of the Ship Delivery Project Manager

• Strong experience delivering complex projects within a similar engineering, marine, defence or construction environment.
• Full project lifecycle experience, from bid stage through to project close‑out.
• Proven capability managing projects of significant complexity across multiple disciplines.
• Understanding of contracting methodologies such as NEC, JCT or similar.
• Broad awareness of functions supporting major project delivery (engineering, commercial, planning, supply chain, SHEQ).

Qualifications for the Ship Delivery Project Manager

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related field.
• A postgraduate qualification or membership of a recognised professional body - desirable
• Working towards APM Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status or planning to obtain it within 12 months - desirable

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: 11/03/2026