Senior Project Manager - Offsite Manufacturing

Babcock International; West Devon; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock invites applications for a Senior Project Manager to lead major infrastructure and engineering packages within the 10 Dock Programme. The role focuses on procurement, manufacture, and delivery of complex offsite work, coordinating contractors and suppliers across the UK and Europe, and ensuring high standards of safety and governance.

You will influence critical outcomes, drive innovation in delivery, and contribute to national defence infrastructure while developing leadership

Qualifications

• Experience operating at a senior level on major projects or in highly regulated environments.
• Proven track record in procurement and tender processes for large contracts/subcontracts.
• Experience managing subcontractors, including programme and commercial performance.
• Knowledge of construction techniques and industry best practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement, manufacture, and delivery of major offsite manufacturing packages.
• Manage contractors and suppliers to meet programme, commercial, quality, and safety objectives.
• Coordinate design completion, contractor mobilisation, delivery, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Drive risk management, stakeholder engagement, and project governance throughout delivery phases.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to achieve programme outcomes.

Skills

Senior level leadership

Procurement management

Tender processes

Contractor management

Construction techniques

Education

Engineering/PM degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

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 Senior Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75737

The role

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering major infrastructure and engineering packages that support the transformational 10 Dock Programme within Babcock's Marine Sector. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the procurement, manufacture, and delivery of complex offsite manufacturing work packages, working alongside industry-leading specialists, contractors, and suppliers across the United Kingdom and Europe.

Day-to-day, you'll have the opportunity to influence critical project outcomes, drive innovation in project delivery, and contribute directly to a programme that strengthens the UK's defence infrastructure. In return, you'll gain exposure to large-scale engineering projects, develop your leadership capabilities, and build a rewarding career at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering.

• Leading the procurement, manufacture, and delivery of major offsite manufacturing packages.
• Managing contractors and suppliers to ensure programme, commercial, quality, and safety objectives are achieved.
• Coordinating design completion, contractor mobilisation, delivery, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Driving risk management, stakeholder engagement, and project governance throughout delivery phases.
• Collaborating with internal teams, contractors, and external partners to achieve successful programme outcomes.

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

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager

• Experience operating at a senior level within major projects or highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrable experience managing procurement and tender processes for significant contracts or subcontract packages.
• Experience managing subcontractors, including programme and commercial performance.
• Knowledge of construction techniques and industry best practice.
• Ability to lead contractors and stakeholders through complex project delivery programmes.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

Essential:

• Degree, Higher National Certificate, or Higher National Diploma in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Desirable:

• Working towards professional membership with a relevant institution such as the Institution of Civil Engineers or Chartered Institute of Building.
• Association for Project Management qualification or equivalent.
• NEC4 Accredited Project Manager qualification.

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 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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