Project Manager
// Role Summary
Lead the delivery and performance management of a major subcontractor on a high-profile Royal Navy programme as a Project Manager at Babcock. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on complex defence technology projects and develop your expertise.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage subcontractor performance against cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
- Oversee project risks and mitigation activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage interdependencies.
- Review project deliverables and track progress against development and manufacturing plans.
- Support programme planning through stakeholder engagement.
- Requires ability to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Project Manager at Babcock, you will play a crucial role in leading the delivery and performance management of a major subcontractor supporting a high-profile Royal Navy programme. This is a career-defining opportunity to work at the forefront of complex defence technology projects, contributing to advanced capabilities that protect national security.
Within our Mission Systems business, you will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, influence key delivery decisions, and drive programme performance across cost, quality, schedule, and risk. As the programme progresses from design into manufacture, you will be instrumental in ensuring successful delivery while enhancing your leadership, commercial, and project management skills within a leading defence and engineering organisation.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Manage the performance of a major subcontractor to ensure delivery against contractual cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
- Monitor project risks, oversee mitigation activities, and escalate issues as needed to maintain programme delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support subcontractor performance and manage project interdependencies.
- Review contractual project management deliverables and track progress against software development and manufacturing plans.
- Support rolling programme planning through regular engagement with key stakeholders and subcontractor teams.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience delivering complex projects and managing major subcontractor or supplier relationships.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, with the ability to challenge constructively and make informed decisions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing colleagues and external partners at all levels.
- Knowledge of project controls, planning, scheduling, risk management, and performance reporting tools.
- Experience managing risks, dependencies, conflicts, and delivery performance within a complex engineering, defence, manufacturing, or technology environment.
Qualifications
- PMQ or PPQ (desirable) or equivalent.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary + Benefits
- 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
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
- Flexible working arrangements
- A dynamic working environment
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to creating a safe and secure world. We offer meaningful careers in lifetime engineering, contributing to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications for flexible working. Please contact careers@babcockinternational.com for reasonable adjustments during the application process.