Production Project Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense solutions provider is seeking a Production Project Manager in Bristol. This role involves managing a submarine program, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery while maintaining high quality standards. The ideal candidate will have production experience and strong project management skills. Benefits include a matched contribution pension scheme, health consultations, and employee share schemes.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefits

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience in managing projects in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to use project controls tools for effective decision making.
• Strong commercial awareness and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive project delivery safely, on time, and within budget.
• Implement best practices in scheduling and cost control.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve project goals.

Skills

Production / manufacturing experience

Knowledge of project controls tools

Commercially and financially astute

Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

Education

PFQ or PMQ or equivalent

Job description

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Production Project Manager

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Production Project Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF66718

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 Production Project Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

The Production Project Manager role is based within our Mission Systems business area and is a unique opportunity to work on a programme delivering a new class of submarine. Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers’ needs.

Day-to-day, you’ll drive to deliver the project safely, on time and within budget, whilst meeting superior quality standards.

We are driven by curiosity and the desire to improve. We seek collaboration to not only deliver the project; but to improve our own skillsets and others around us.

• Take responsibility of the delivery of several pieces of equipment and will therefore have influence over our daily workings – following and implementing best practices within scheduling, cost control, risk management and procurement whilst working with stakeholders from across the team and wider business, to help drive delivery momentum and achieve the project goals.

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

Experience and Skills of the Production Project Manager

• Production / manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of project controls tools and how these tools operate to provide key information for decision making.
• Commercially and financially astute, with a challenging mind-set.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills – communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and with external bodies.

Qualifications for the Production Project Manager

• PFQ or PMQ (desirable) or equivalent

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.

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

• 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 [e-mail] 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: 22/08/2025

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