Project Manager in Plymouth

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves leading a nationally significant programme spanning more than 20 years, delivering activities that haven’t been undertaken in the UK for decades and supporting one of the most specialised stages of the submarine lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Lead a defined project scope, setting direction, deploying resources and driving collaboration to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Manage and develop people across direct, dotted‑line and matrix structures, driving high performance and cohesion.
• Oversee governance, processes and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of progress, priorities and compliance.
• Control financial, operational and subcontractor resources, ensuring delivery aligns with agreed cost, time and quality.
• Lead risk and issue management activities, identifying and mitigating threats and opportunities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrated experience in schedule planning and management.
• Strong background in risk, opportunity and issue management.
• Practical knowledge of budgeting, cost control and financial oversight.
• Proven leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
• Experience engaging, influencing and managing stakeholders and communications.

Qualifications:

• APM Project Management Qualification or a degree in a STEM or business discipline.
• APM Project Risk Management Level 2 - Desirable
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation - Desirable

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• 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 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 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.

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 with over 26,000 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.