Project Manager

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Project Manager to join their Devonport Royal Dockyard team. In this role, you will manage and lead infrastructure projects from planning through to completion, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder satisfaction. The position offers a competitive salary along with various employee benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Special paid leave for reservists

Volunteering day

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience in complex infrastructure projects.
• Highly organized and self-sufficient.
• Strong grasp of APM principles and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a suite of infrastructure upgrade projects.
• Manage project finances, including budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure cross-discipline coordination and resource optimization.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Degree in Engineering, Construction or Project-related Discipline

APM Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £51,941 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65227

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 Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As aProject Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join a high-impact team delivering critical infrastructure programmes that shape the future. Whether you're driving innovation, managing projects, or supporting delivery, you'll play a pivotal role in advancing complex, high-profile initiatives in a dynamic and purpose-led environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead infrastructure upgrade projects across the Devonport site, managing programmes, budgets, and milestones from planning to completion. Your role ensures cross-discipline coordination, resource optimisation, and stakeholder engagement to deliver each project on time, within scope, and in line with strategic goals.

• Lead and coordinate asuite of infrastructure upgrade projects across the Devonport site
• Oversee projects through all lifecycle stages, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and quality expectations
• Regularly update and maintain project programmes, tracking progress and adjusting plans as needed
• Manage project finances, monitoring budgets, forecasts, and cost control measures
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of upgrades across multiple workstreams and disciplines

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Proven project management experience, particularly in the delivery of complex infrastructure projects
• Highly organised and self-sufficient, capable of producing quality outputs and reports with minimal oversight
• Strong grasp of APM principles and methodologies, with advanced proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including confidence in working with senior figures
• Experienced in liaising with stakeholders at all leveals and building effective relationships across organisational boundaries

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• Hold a degree in engineering, construction, or a project-related discipline
• Possess an appropriate APM qualification (Association for Project Management)

In some cases, formal qualifications may be waived temporarily based on demonstrated experience and specific capabilities in a relevant role.

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 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: 18/07/2025

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