Project Manager

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Be Kind Day

Flexible working

Dynamic working environment

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Project Manager for the Bristol-based Technology Centre, offering hybrid work with 2 days onsite and 3 from home. You will lead delivery of a major subcontractor on a Royal Navy programme, shaping cost, schedule, and risk controls across engineering and manufacturing

You'll collaborate with diverse stakeholders, manage programme performance, and transition from design to manufacture, developing leadership and project management expertise within a leading defence organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex projects with major subcontractor/supplier relationships.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness with ability to challenge and decide.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication across levels.
• Knowledge of project controls, planning, scheduling, risk management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the performance of a major subcontractor to meet cost, quality and schedule.
• Monitor risks, oversee mitigations, escalate issues to protect delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support subcontractor performance and interdependencies.
• Review contractual PM deliverables and track progress against software/manufacturing plans.
• Support rolling programme planning with key stakeholders and subcontractor teams.

Skills

Subcontractor management

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder management

Project controls

Engineering/defence experience

Education

PMQ or PPQ (desirable) or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75677

Lead the Delivery of Mission-Critical Defence Capability

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 Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead the delivery and performance management of a major subcontractor supporting a high-profile Royal Navy programme. This is a career-defining role where you'll work at the heart of complex defence technology projects, helping to deliver advanced capabilities that protect national security and support those who serve.

Working within our Mission Technologies business, you'll collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, influence key delivery decisions, and drive programme performance across cost, quality, schedule, and risk. As the programme transitions from design and qualification into manufacture, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring successful delivery while developing your own leadership, commercial, and project management expertise within one of the UK's leading defence and engineering organisations.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage the performance of a major subcontractor to ensure delivery against contractual cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
• Monitor project risks, overseeing mitigation activities, and escalating issues where appropriate to maintain programme delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support subcontractor performance and manage project interdependencies.
• Review contractual project management deliverables and tracking progress against software development and manufacturing plans.
• Support rolling programme planning activities through regular engagement with key stakeholders and subcontractor teams.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Demonstrable experience delivering complex projects and managing major subcontractor or supplier relationships.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, with the ability to challenge constructively and make informed decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing colleagues and external partners at all levels.
• Knowledge of project controls, planning, scheduling, risk management, and performance reporting tools.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies, conflicts, and delivery performance within a complex engineering, defence, manufacturing, or technology environment.

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• PMQ or PPQ (desirable) or equivalent

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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:

02/10/2026

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