Project Manager

Babcock International; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP & health checks

Life assurance

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees covered

Special leave for Reservists

Holiday trading window

Be Kind Day volunteering

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects from initiation to completion at Custom House, Belfast.

You will manage budgets, schedules and resources, coordinate with customers and stakeholders, and ensure safety, quality and governance standards are met while working in a hybrid onsite and home-based arrangement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering projects in construction, infrastructure, engineering or rail sectors.
• Strong project management skills including budgets, schedules, resources and risks.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex projects from initiation to completion.
• Monitor performance, manage budgets, schedules, resources and risks.
• Coordinate project teams, suppliers and stakeholders to meet milestones.
• Maintain relationships with customers and key stakeholders throughout the lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, environmental and governance requirements.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder coordination

Rail knowledge

Education

Engineering/Construction/PM degree

NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation

Job description

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.
• NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation.

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

• 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 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.

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 [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: 23/09/2026

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