Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £59,110.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66618
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 Project Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll join the Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) team to lead complex defence projects that support key business goals and enhance Royal Navy submarine availability and safety.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead complex engineering projects that drive both short-term business outcomes and long-term strategic investments, directly contributing to improved submarine availability and operational readiness.
- Lead projects through the full lifecycle, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and baselines are met
- Build and manage cross-functional teams to deliver agreed scope and foster collaboration
- Oversee schedules, budgets, risks, and opportunities to ensure successful delivery
- Communicate with key stakeholders to align on project goals and progress
- Continuously improve processes and develop project management skills in line with best practice
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Project Manager
- Proven track record of successful project delivery in complex engineering environments
- Strong leadership and problem solving skills, with a proactive approach to challenges
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement across all levels, ensuring clear alignment of requirements, expectations, and project outcomes.
- Self-motivated with a drive to own and shape your career development
Qualifications for the Project Manager
- Relevant qualification in Project Management (APM PMQ or similar).
- A registered Project Professional, actively working towards or willing to work towards professional accreditation.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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. 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 15/09/2025
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