Project Manager

weServed ofVeterans Ltd.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists paid leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Devonport, Plymouth is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex construction and infrastructure programmes that support national security. You will coordinate delivery from planning to execution, ensuring safety, quality and regulatory compliance while working with a diverse team of engineers and specialists.

This onsite role offers early starts, structured governance, and exposure to high-profile projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex projects within construction, engineering, infrastructure, defence, or similarly regulated environments
• Experience leading and motivating multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives
• Strong understanding of project management principles, governance, and delivery frameworks
• Experience applying organisational policies, procedures, and project controls throughout the project lifecycle
• Health and safety training such as IOSH or NEBOSH

Responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating pre-construction and construction teams to achieve project objectives safely and effectively
• Driving a strong safety, security, and environmental culture across project activities
• Managing project schedules, performance reporting, budgets, and construction delivery activities
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to manage risks, dependencies, and opportunities
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, security, environmental, and project governance requirements

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76895

Lead Complex Infrastructure Projects That Support National Security

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 our Devonport site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you'll take ownership of complex construction and infrastructure projects within one of the United Kingdom’s most important defence environments. This is an opportunity to lead high-profile programmes that directly support national security and critical infrastructure while developing your project leadership expertise within a world-class engineering organisation.

Working alongside highly skilled professionals, you'll coordinate project delivery from planning through to execution, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards. You'll build strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and play a visible role in delivering outcomes that make a real difference.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading and coordinating pre-construction and construction teams to achieve project objectives safely and effectively
• Driving a strong safety, security, and environmental culture across project activities
• Managing project schedules, performance reporting, budgets, and construction delivery activities
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to manage risks, dependencies, and opportunities
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, security, environmental, and project governance requirements

This is a full-time, onsite role based at Devonport, working 35 hours per week. Set working times are 7:30am to 3:30pm Monday to Thursday and 7:30am to 12:30pm Friday.

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Proven experience delivering complex projects within construction, engineering, infrastructure, defence, or similarly regulated environments
• Experience leading and motivating multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives
• Strong understanding of project management principles, governance, and delivery frameworks
• Experience applying organisational policies, procedures, and project controls throughout the project lifecycle
• Health and safety training such as IOSH or NEBOSH

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• A recognised Level 6 qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Association for Project Management Qualification certified or equivalent
• Working towards Registered Project Professional status would be advantageous
• NEC4 contract experience would be beneficial

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: 15/11/2026