Project Manager

weServed; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists paid leave (10 days)

Holiday trading window Feb–Mar

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Project Manager to deliver high-value, complex infrastructure projects in a defence environment at HMNB Clyde Faslane site. The role combines on-site delivery with hybrid working arrangements and requires SC security clearance.

You will manage the full lifecycle from business case through to handover, coordinating briefs, designs and tendering while leading design teams and stakeholders across engineering disciplines.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering construction/engineering infrastructure projects in complex environments.
• Familiar with NEC4 or JCT standard forms of contract.
• Experience leading design teams through project lifecycles and using PM tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver infrastructure projects from concept to handover per lifecycle standards.
• Coordinate briefs, technical designs, and tender processes.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Oversee contractor performance to meet time, cost, and quality targets.
• Lead project governance, risk management and handover processes.

Skills

Infrastructure project management

NEC4/JCT contracts

Design team leadership

Primavera

Budget control

Education

HNC in Construction/Engineering

RICS/CIOB membership (professional)

APM qualification desirable

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits + Overtime

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74194

Deliver Complex Infrastructure That Supports National Security

At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you will take ownership of delivering a portfolio of high-value, complex infrastructure projects within a major defence environment. From early business case through to final handover, you will guide projects across their entire lifecycle making a tangible difference to operational capability and national resilience.

This is an opportunity to grow your career in a dynamic engineering environment, working alongside industry experts while shaping large-scale programmes that demand innovation, precision, and leadership.

Day-to-day you will be required to:

• Deliver infrastructure projects in line with recognised project lifecycle standards, from concept through to completion
• Coordinate the development of project briefs, technical designs, and tender processes
• Manage multidisciplinary design teams, contractors, and external stakeholders
• Oversee contractor performance during delivery to ensure time, cost, and quality targets are met
• Lead project governance, risk management, and handover processes

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and provides hybrid working arrangements with an initial expectation of three to four days on site per week.

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Managing construction or engineering infrastructure projects in a complex environment
• Applying standard forms of contract such as NEC4 or JCT
• Leading design teams across project lifecycle stages (e.g. RIBA Plan of Work)
• Working with project management tools and methodologies (such as Primavera or Microsoft Project)
• Controlling project budgets and delivering against financial targets

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Minimum HNC in Construction, Engineering, or a related discipline (civil, electrical, mechanical, or project management)
• Working towards or holding professional membership (such as RICS, CIOB, or similar)
• A Project Management qualification (such as APM) is 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 organization or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 10/09/2026

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