Transport Project Manager in Wolverhampton

Location: Wolverhampton, GB, WV7 3EX

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of transport solutions that support national infrastructure. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Transport Project Manager.

The role:

As a Transport Project Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering complex transport projects that support operational excellence across our UK Land & Aviation business. Reporting into senior leadership, you’ll oversee end-to-end project delivery—ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to strategic goals. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide portfolio, collaborating with internal teams, customers, and supply chain partners while developing your expertise in a highly dynamic environment.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Managing a portfolio of transport projects, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines and cost
• Leading end-to-end project delivery from scoping and design through to implementation and handover
• Collaborating with internal teams, customers, and supply chain partners to deliver effective transport solutions
• Supporting operational teams with subject matter expertise and guidance
• Creating and maintaining project documentation, systems, and training materials

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week with flexible working hours Monday to Friday, including an early finish on Fridays. This role is based at RAF Cosford, Shropshire, with flexibility to be based across the UK. Frequent travel to other sites is expected, alongside remote and hybrid working options.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrating strong knowledge of transport operations and relevant legislation
• Showing experience delivering projects within transport or operational environments
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders through strong presentation skills
• Managing multiple priorities and delivering within deadlines
• Working collaboratively across teams and external partners

Qualifications:

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Transport Manager CPC – Passenger or LGV (desirable)

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.

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 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 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.