Project Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP & health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex rail infrastructure projects from initiation through completion at Custom House, Belfast. The role requires managing budgets, schedules, and multidisciplinary teams while coordinating with customers and stakeholders to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery.

The position is based onsite with hybrid working and a 35-hour week, offering a competitive package and benefits. Experience in rail or related sectors is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Professional experience delivering projects in construction/infrastructure/rail sectors.
• Strong project management experience with budgets, schedules and resources.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex projects from initiation to completion.
• Oversee programme performance, budgets and resources.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to ensure success.
• Monitor risks and financial forecasts and take corrective actions.
• Maintain relationships with customers and ensure safety and governance compliance.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Schedules management

Risk management

Stakeholder coordination

Leadership

Education

Engineering/Construction/Project Management degree

Job description

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Project Manager

Location: Belfast, GB, BT1 3ES

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Belfast, County Antrim + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits + Car Allowance

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75946

Deliver Critical Rail Infrastructure Projects That Keep Communities Moving

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 Custom House, near Belfast, County Antrim.

The role

As a Project Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the successful delivery of complex projects from initiation through to completion. You'll oversee programme performance, manage project resources and budgets, and work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.

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

• Manage multidisciplinary projects to ensure delivery is safe, efficient, on schedule and within budget.
• Coordinate project teams, suppliers and stakeholders to achieve project objectives and milestones.
• Monitor project performance, risks and financial forecasts, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, environmental and governance requirements.

The role is based onsite at Custom House, Belfast, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Proven experience delivering projects within the construction, infrastructure, engineering or rail sectors.
• Strong project management experience, including managing budgets, schedules, resources and project risks.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable ability to successfully deliver projects safely, on time and within budget.
• Rail industry experience or rail systems engineering knowledge would be advantageous but is not essential.

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Qualification in a relevant Engineering, Construction, Project Management or related discipline.

Security Clearance

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 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 29,000 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer.

We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive.

We are happy to talk about flexible working.

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