At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex projects in rail infrastructure, ensuring safe and efficient delivery.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in engineering and infrastructure.
- Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, health services, and volunteering days.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to inclusivity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on communities while developing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management within construction or engineering sectors.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Location: Belfast, County Antrim + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits + Car Allowance
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Deliver Critical Rail Infrastructure Projects That Keep Communities Moving
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at Custom House, near Belfast, County Antrim.
The role:
As a Project Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the successful delivery of complex projects from initiation through to completion. You'll oversee programme performance, manage project resources and budgets, and work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Manage multidisciplinary projects to ensure delivery is safe, efficient, on schedule and within budget.
- Coordinate project teams, suppliers and stakeholders to achieve project objectives and milestones.
- Monitor project performance, risks and financial forecasts, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Maintain strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, environmental and governance requirements.
The role is based onsite at Custom House, Belfast, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
- Proven experience delivering projects within the construction, infrastructure, engineering or rail sectors.
- Strong project management experience, including managing budgets, schedules, resources and project risks.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrable ability to successfully deliver projects safely, on time and within budget.
- Rail industry experience or rail systems engineering knowledge would be advantageous but is not essential.
Qualifications for the Project Manager:
- Qualification in a relevant Engineering, Construction, Project Management or related discipline.
- NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation.
Security Clearance:
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.
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.
- ‘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 We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 23/09/2026
Project Manager employer: Babcock International
Babcock is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and career development, offering a flexible hybrid working environment in the UK. With generous benefits such as a matched pension scheme, professional fee coverage, and unique initiatives like 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering, Babcock fosters a supportive and inclusive culture where employees can thrive while contributing to vital national security projects.
