Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72731
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be part of the Devonport Infrastructure Directorate, responsible for delivering a wide range of Ministry of Defence (MoD)-funded infrastructure and construction projects, including maintenance, improvements, and the development of new facilities across the Devonport site.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Manage projects across the full lifecycle, covering a range of disciplines, with a value of up to £4 million
- Deliver all aspects of project management, including planning, programming, finance, risk, control, monitoring, and Health & Safety at every stage
- Ensure projects are delivered in line with established procedures and governance
- Work collaboratively with supporting departments, including technical, commercial, procurement, scheduling, and Health and Safety teams
- Manage assistant project staff where required
- Produce scopes of work for straightforward project
This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements available
Essential experience of the Project Manager
- Experience of project management and delivery of projects within building, construction, or related industry.
- Relevant knowledge and experience of the application of H&S Regulations.
- Knowledge of APM philosophy and responsibilities.
- Organisation skills and the ability to self-manage and produce information and reports.
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office software.
- Good communication skills and the ability to deal with senior management and diverse stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Project Manager
- Technical: degree in an engineering / construction subject is preferred but an HNC can be accepted depending on the level of experience and capability.
- Project Management: APM qualification but this may be waived for a period depending on the level of experience and capability.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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
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: 14/07/2026
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