Project Manager

Job Title:                     Project Manager

Location:                     Wareham, Dorset + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £51,112.00 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73180

Lead projects that protect the nation and shape the future of defence engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role offers the opportunity to manage end to end project activity while developing your leadership capability, commercial awareness, and technical understanding. You will work within strong governance frameworks while being encouraged to drive continuous improvement, innovation, and high performance across your projects.

Day to day you’ll be required to

• You will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project delivery teams
• You will define, plan, monitor, and control project activities and milestones
• You will manage customer and stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle
• You will identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities
• You will provide clear project reporting on progress, performance, and issues

The role is based at Bovington, with access to an onsite gym. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Experience working across a range of project lifecycle phases
• Awareness of different contracting and delivery methodologies
• Experience working within cross functional project environments
• Understanding of project governance, risk, and performance controls
• Ability to communicate clearly with customers and internal stakeholders

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• APM Project Management Qualification
• Project Risk Management qualification or equivalent
• Membership of a professional project management body would be advantageous

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: 07/05/2026

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