Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75180
Lead a flagship defence technology programme and help shape the future of mission-critical capabilities
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Manager at Ashton House, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
This is an opportunity to lead a high-profile, strategically important programme within our Mission Systems business. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering complex technology and engineering solutions that support defence capability, national security, and future growth. Working at the forefront of defence innovation, you'll lead multidisciplinary teams, influence senior stakeholders, and help deliver outcomes that truly matter.
As a Programme Manager, you'll be responsible for leading a complex and high-value growth programme, driving successful delivery from mobilisation through to execution. You'll join a developing team at an exciting stage, giving you the opportunity to shape ways of working, build capability, and make a lasting impact across the business.
This role offers excellent career development opportunities within a globally recognised engineering and defence organisation, while enabling you to contribute to projects that support the safety and security of the UK.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to successfully mobilise and deliver complex programmes and growth initiatives
- Manage the delivery of large, technically complex engineering and technology contracts for Ministry of Defence and commercial customers
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to maintain confidence, engagement, and programme success
- Drive programme performance, risk management, financial objectives, and delivery commitments
- Develop and growing high-performing teams that support both successful programme delivery and future business growth
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Programme Manager
- Demonstrable experience leading and delivering large-scale complex engineering or technology programmes valued at £75m+
- Strong project and programme management expertise, including bid, mobilisation, delivery, and service integration activities
- Experience identifying, managing, and mitigating programme risks within complex delivery environments
- Proven commercial awareness and experience operating within large, high-value programmes
- Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams while engaging confidently with senior stakeholders and customers
Qualifications for the Programme Manager
- Holds a recognised project management qualification such as APM PMQ, ChPP or equivalent.
- Holds a clean UK driving license
- Be eligible for a minimum SC level (UK) security with the potential for further clearance if required.
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
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: 06/08/2026
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