Construction Manager

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A Construction Manager - 2 - is a mid-level management role in the Construction Management discipline of the Construction role family. This role manages an area of activity - at scale - within this discipline and is accountable for performance and results achieved through multiple managers, senior grade professional associates and or senior technical specialists. Holds a balanced focus on delivery against short term priorities with a medium term outlook, anticipating challenges and adapting plans and priorities accordingly

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Job Title: Construction Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74429

Deliver critical infrastructure that supports national security

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 Construction Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Construction Manager, you’ll take responsibility for delivering construction activities across key infrastructure programmes, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards. You’ll play a vital role in managing site operations, coordinating contractors, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety requirements in a highly controlled environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead the delivery of complex construction projects that directly support defence capability. You’ll work at the forefront of programme delivery, influencing outcomes, driving safety culture, and developing your leadership within a dynamic and purpose-driven organisation.

• Managing day-to-day construction activities, ensuring safe and effective delivery of site works
• Leading and coordinating contractors and site teams to deliver work packages to plan
• Authoring key construction documents and chairing project and site meetings
• Ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements across all activities
• Supporting inspections, verification activities and continuous improvement of site operations

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

Essential experience of the Construction Manager

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams delivering construction or installation works
• Strong understanding of construction practices, CDM regulations and health and safety legislation
• Experience working in regulated or safety-critical environments, ideally within defence or nuclear sectors
• Proven ability to manage contractors, contracts, and daily site operations
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across integrated teams

Qualifications for the Construction Manager

• Construction Skills Certification Scheme Manager Card (Black card)
• Site Management Safety Training Scheme qualification

• Temporary works or lifting qualifications - Desirable
• NVQ Level 6 or 7 in Construction Management - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 05/07/2026

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