Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Bristol, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: 66825
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 Senior Project Manager at our Ashton site.
The Senior Project Manager role is based within our Mission Systems business area. Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers’ needs. You'll be working on a next generation submarine programme, taking a lead role within an established Integrated Project Team. You'll be responsible for the design, development, production, qualification and delivery of a number of major sub systems.
Day-to-day, you will be contributing to one of the UK’s major submarine programmes, and be responsible for, the project management of complex engineering projects, ensuring that the delivery teams understand cost, time and quality requirements and remain coordinated in their approach to delivering agreed scope of work. You will be providing end-to-end delivery throughout the project lifecycle and also be responsible for supporting with requirement capture, scoping, technical and commercial solutions and the generation of pricing models and proposal documents.
Experience
- Considerable experience of project delivery in the UK defence industry
- Prior experience in building, leading and managing a team in a matrix environment
- Prior experience of managing a complex sub tier supply chain
- Prior experience in a customer facing role
- Prior experience managing or contributing to bid submissions
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of contract and commercial management
- Strong communication skills
- Direct line management experience
- Providing overall operational and strategic management of assigned tasks projects within your project team.
- Effectively managing customers, internal stakeholders and suppliers
- Responsibility and ownership of the project’s finances, including the revenue, margins, cash flow and forecasting
This position involves occasional travel to customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and 2-3 days working from home. Based at Ashton, Bristol.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager
- Considerable experience in the advanced application of Project Management techniques in a relevant technical project environment and great financial management to ensure a high level of profitability on projects.
- Experience in leading and managing a team of project staff, providing direction and motivation, as well as managing projects with differing demands and deadline. Direct line management experience as well as leadership in a matrix environment.
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of contract and commercial management and experience working within the Defence and Security sector is highly desirable.
- Experience delivering solutions with a diverse team of both internal resource teams and external supply chains and experience working with senior level managers both internally and externally.
- APM PMQ, Chartered status or equivalent (advantageous).
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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
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: 03/09/2025
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