Project Manager

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces leave

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' paid leave

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Project Manager to lead critical programmes at the Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. You will drive delivery, manage multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, and ensure work packages meet safety, cost, and schedule targets.

The role offers exposure to national security projects within defence, aerospace and engineering. Candidates should have a relevant degree and PM qualifications, with SC security clearance being a requirement.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering, PM, Construction Management or related field.
• APM Project Management Qualification or equivalent.
• NEC3/NEC4 accreditation desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of key work packages ensuring safety, on time and within budget.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Manage costs, schedules and risks to support project success.
• Foster collaboration across project teams and workshops.
• Identify and manage project risks, opportunities and issues.

Skills

Leadership

Planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

APM Project Management Qualification

NEC3/NEC4 accreditation

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Starting from £44,600 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76368

Shape the future of critical national infrastructure

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 a Project Manager, you'll work in a fast-paced environment where your leadership, planning and stakeholder management skills will help deliver essential programmes safely, efficiently and successfully. In return, you'll benefit from outstanding career development opportunities, exposure to high-profile projects and the chance to make a meaningful impact within a globally recognised organisation.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for leading the delivery of key work packages, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, within budget and to the required scope. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, suppliers and stakeholders, internal and external resources, to manage their delivery appropriately. You will help drive project performance while contributing to programmes that support national security and critical infrastructure. This role offers excellent opportunities to further develop your project management expertise within a highly respected defence, aerospace and engineering environment.

• Developing, maintaining and controlling project schedules to ensure accurate planning and reporting.
• Monitoring project costs, forecasts and budgets to ensure successful financial performance.
• Managing internal and external suppliers to achieve project objectives for time, cost and scope.
• Facilitating collaborative working across project teams, workshops and stakeholder meetings.
• Identifying, assessing and managing project risks, opportunities and issues to support successful delivery.

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

Essential Experience Of The Project Manager

• Managing the safe delivery of complex project work packages.
• Delivering key project management activities including schedule, cost and risk management.
• Developing and agreeing project requirements, scope and delivery solutions.
• Planning, monitoring and controlling work delivered by internal and external resources.
• Securing and managing resources to ensure successful project outcomes.

Qualifications For The Project Manager

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or a related discipline.
• APM Project Management Qualification.
• Alternatively, membership or accreditation from another relevant professional body appropriate to the nature of the works.
• NEC3 or NEC4 Project Manager accreditation - Desirable

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 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: 14/10/2026

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