Senior 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 Senior Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves leading project management office activities across a complex portfolio of digital and infrastructure projects. You'll establish robust governance and project controls, provide portfolio-level visibility of performance, and ensure senior leaders have the insight they need to make informed decisions. Day-to-day, you'll influence strategic planning, drive continuous improvement, and support the successful delivery of programmes that contribute to national security and business performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading project management office activities across the Data & Digital Infrastructure portfolio.
• Establishing and maintaining governance, project controls and assurance frameworks.
• Monitoring project performance, budgets, forecasts, risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate corrective actions are implemented.
• Producing and presenting portfolio reporting to senior leaders and customers.
• Driving continuous improvement and developing project management office and project controls capability across the portfolio.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience:

• Experience leading project management office functions within complex project or programme environments.
• Strong experience in governance, assurance and project controls.
• Experience managing risks, issues, schedules, budgets and inter-project dependencies.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Experience delivering digital, information technology, infrastructure or transformation programmes within highly regulated environments.

Qualifications:

• Degree, HND or equivalent professional experience.
• Association for Project Management Project Management Qualification (PMQ).
• IOSH Managing Safely qualification.

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 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.

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 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.