Job Title: Risk Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69727
Shape the future of defence and engineering — join us as a Risk Manager and make a real impact.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Risk Manager at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As a Risk Manager, you’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure programmes. Your expertise will help us identify, assess and mitigate risks across major project delivery phases, ensuring success for both our business and national security. This is a role where your decisions matter, your skills grow and your career thrives.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
- Develop, implement and maintain the Project Risk and Opportunity Register
- Coordinate monthly risk and opportunity reviews with Project teams
- Generate risk reports and statistics for senior stakeholders
- Support mitigation planning and monitor progress
- Contribute to period-end reporting and project governance
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days in the office/onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Risk Manager
- Proven experience in project risk management within the construction industry
- Skilled in risk management software such as RiskHive, Safran, or similar
- Knowledge of Quantitative Risk Analysis (SRA/CRA) and/or NEC contracts (NEC3/NEC4)
- Strong communication skills with senior internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications for the Risk Manager
- Degree in risk, project management, engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
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. 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: 07/12/2025
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