Programme Manager

Job Title:              Programme Manager
Location:              Chippenham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF63973

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 Programme Manager at our Corsham, Wiltshire site.

The Role
As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead a high-profile, mission-critical programme within the Space Business Unit of Mission Systems. This role is central to the modernisation and transformation of Skynet, ensuring the delivery of cutting-edge technology to support UK defence capabilities.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee the successful execution of complex projects, driving change and innovation in satellite communications.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver systems for the UK’s Military Satellite Communications capability, Skynet.
• Drive the planning and coordinated delivery of change and transformation projects essential for the long-term sustainability of the Skynet programme.
• Engage and collaborate at a senior level with Babcock leadership, MoD stakeholders, and Commercial Partners.
• Ensure programme milestones, budgets, and performance objectives are met while maintaining high standards of quality and security.
• Ensure all areas of the programme are suitably resourced to deliver against customer requirements, schedule, and price, ensuring continuous improvement.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Programme Manager

We’re looking for a dynamic and accomplished leader who can navigate complexity and drive success in a fast-paced, highly technical environment. The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven experience in programme management within space, defence, or complex engineering domains.
• Experience in delivering a programme, where staff are dispersed across several sites.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively at a senior level.
• A solution-oriented mindset, with the confidence and tenacity to overcome challenges.
• Experience delivering large-scale transformation and change programmes.

Qualifications for the Programme Manager 

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in relevant technical or management discipline.
• Recognised project management qualifications, ideally accredited by the Association for Project Management.
• Holds SC level security clearance, or willing to achieve.
• A full passport and driving license.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. The successful candidate may be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security check once in post.
 

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock has 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. 

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: 21/05/2025

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